The JSE Securities Exchange, currently trading at record levels of about 14 Â 000, ”has got the legs” to breach 15 Â 000 points, Mark Wurr, the head of trading at Global Trader 24/7, said recently. At 14 000 points, the JSE Securities Exchange is valued at a shade less than R2-trillion.
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The Mail & Guardian this week faced a new legal assault on its right to investigate and publish information relating to financial flows surrounding the payment of R15-million by PetroSA to African National Congress-aligned oil company Imvume Management in December 2003.
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This week, the M&G brings you — in full — the story we had to black out a fortnight ago after being gagged write Stefaans Brümmer and Sam Sole.
One of the unions involved in the Metrorail pay protest called off its strike on Thursday, with the second waiting for word from its members on whether to continue the strike. The United Association of South Africa said it called off its strike on Thursday morning and asked its members to return to work.
Kenyan police on Thursday re-arrested a Muslim man suspected of terrorism links just hours after he was acquitted on murder charges in connection with the 2002 al-Qaeda-linked bombing of an Israeli hotel near the southern port city of Mombasa, his lawyer said. He was arrested as he was about to leave prison.
Unless Britons are charged for the distance they drive, they could eventually face unmanageable traffic jams on major roads, the nation’s transport secretary said on Thursday. Transport Secretary Alistair Darling said Britain needs to implement the world’s first satellite-based system to charge motorists for every kilometre they drive.
About 40 000 prostitutes will offer their services to football fans at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, according to experts. Cologne and Dortmund, two of the host cities for the World Cup, have even erected a number of wooden ”sex huts” for the football showpiece, with condoms and showers at hand.
The City of Johannesburg does not have a billing crisis, but a service crisis, its finance department said on Thursday. ”It is not really accurate to say we have a billing crisis, but rather to say we have a customer-service crisis,” said Roland Hunter, acting head of the city’s revenue shared services centre.