The labour minister's decision to review the earnings threshold -- which decides who enjoys certain employment benefits -- has surprised lawyers.

South Africa has secured over 200 international conferences, which Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk says will provide a boost of R1.6-billion.

ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa says certainty on the issue of nationalisation is needed and this can only happen by having a unified voice.

More litigation around the fair value of offers could be seen due to the takeover regulations of the new Companies Act, say attorneys.

New forms of fraud are emerging that are making bank cyber fraud even more lucrative than the drug trade, says an auditing expert.

The latest survey done on retirement shows a positive trend in South Africa of retirement savings having reached their highest levels in a decade.

MTN is positioned to take advantage of opportunistic deal-making activity due to the high levels of cash on its books, the company has said.

New projects in Africa are expected to enjoy strong growth from next year, with inflows of foreign direct investment forecast to reach US$150-billion.

While emerging markets have been resilient so far to global market subprime turmoil, global spillovers could test their resilience, said the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) director of monetary and capital markets, Jaime Caruana, on Tuesday at the launch of the IMF's latest <i>Global Financial Stability Report</i>.

Director and chief economist of Econometrix Dr Azar Jammine said on Monday that he was becoming a little nervous about the implications of the political environment -- particularly views that economic policy will not be changed -- on the ability of South Africa to keep attracting capital flows.

Nominal house-price growth of 15,5% year-on-year was recorded in April from a revised 15,7% in March, according to the latest Absa house-price index. This brings the average price of a house in the survey to R911 800 in April. On a month-on-month basis, nominal price growth declined further to 0,9% in April.

The deterioration of South Africa's national savings ratio to 13,75% of gross domestic product in the fourth quarter of 2006 has brought the annual savings ratio to an historic low of 14% in 2006, South African Reserve Bank (SARB) data showed on Thursday.