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/ 18 February 2010
Impala Platinum (Implats), the world’s number two platinum miner, on Thursday posted a 76% fall in first-half earnings.
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/ 18 February 2010
Standard Bank expects to report about a 20% decline in full-year normalised headline earnings per share, it said on Thursday.
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/ 18 February 2010
Woolworths posted a 40% rise in first-half profit, bolstered partly by foreign-exchange gains as consumers battling rein in spending.
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/ 18 February 2010
SuperSport United beat Platinum Stars 1-0 on Wednesday to move closer to a third successive Premiership title as their closest rival faltered.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Wednesday there was no need to change the South African Reserve Bank’s existing inflation target band.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has become the latest prominent figure to have his full genome deciphered, scientists revealed on Wednesday.
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/ 17 February 2010
Johannesburg’s informal traders stand to score big during the 2010 Fifa World Cup if they adhere to the international soccer body’s by-laws.
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/ 17 February 2010
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela and Cooperative Governance Minister Sicelo Shiceka will on Thursday visit Siyathemba township in Balfour.
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/ 17 February 2010
South Africa will spend an extra R112-billion over the next three years as it tackles poverty, boosts job creation and fights HIV/Aids.
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/ 17 February 2010
South Africa will from March 1 this year levy mining royalties that were postponed due a recession last year, the National Treasury said on Wednesday.
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/ 17 February 2010
Although Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan backed away from increases in personal tax this year, he clearly left the door open for future tax hikes.
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/ 17 February 2010
South Africa’s economy is expected to grow by 2,3% in 2010 after contracting 1,8% last year, but unemployment remains a critical challenge.
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/ 17 February 2010
SA’s central bank will continue to target inflation at between 3% and 6% although debate on monetary policy is constructive over the longer-term.
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/ 17 February 2010
Scepticism of the National Health Insurance scheme is not a reaction against change, but shows concern about its impact on the wider economy.
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/ 17 February 2010
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has suspended MP Dianne Kohler Barnard for five days for swearing in the National Assembly, the party said on Wednesday.
John Smit will become the first South African to play 100 games for a Super rugby team when the Sharks hosts the Cheetahs on Friday night.
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/ 17 February 2010
South Africa’s retail sales fell by a less-than-expected 3,7% year-on-year in December, data showed on Wednesday.
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/ 17 February 2010
A Sun City manager was found strangled in her flat at the resort on Monday, on the day that a Fifa workshop started there, North West police said.
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/ 17 February 2010
SA ferrochrome producer International Ferro Metals plans to cut costs by firing its smelters with waste product from mining peer Anglo American.
South Africa were struggling to save the final Test against India after losing three key wickets in a rain-curtailed fourth day’s play on Wednesday.
The arrest of a student for "swearing" at President Jacob Zuma’s convoy is a tactic of a police state, not a democracy, the DA said on Wednesday.
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/ 17 February 2010
White South Africans are generally the biggest beneficiaries of recruitment and promotion in the workplace, Jimmy Manyi said on Tuesday.
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/ 16 February 2010
Trade union Solidarity is misleading the public about its 23 000 letters on crime from concerned South Africans, the Presidency said on Tuesday.
Major opposition parties staged a walkout from Parliament on Tuesday, with accusations of swearing being made by the ANC.
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/ 16 February 2010
SA unveils a new budget on Wednesday that will aim to pull cash from stretched state coffers to back the president’s promises to create jobs.
Jean de Villiers will quit Munster at the end of the season and return home in an attempt to win a place in South Africa’s 2011 World Cup squad
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/ 16 February 2010
President Jacob Zuma repeated firmly on Tuesday that nationalisation is not government policy.
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/ 16 February 2010
Former intelligence coordinator Barry Gilder will be allowed to testify in the trial of former police boss Jackie Selebi, the NPA said on Tuesday.
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/ 16 February 2010
The presidency on Tuesday refused to accept 23 000 letters — loaded in wheelbarrows — about crime from concerned South Africans.
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/ 16 February 2010
The self-proclaimed "winner" of the R91-million Powerball jackpot is a phoney, the company that operates the national lottery said on Tuesday.
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/ 16 February 2010
The government should maintain taxation at current levels, the Banking Association of SA said on Tuesday as it presented its pre-budget wish list.