The Public Investment Commissioners (PIC) — which has a 12,5% shareholding in Standard Bank — will "in principle" vote in support of the financial group’s plan to sell a 10%…
In a calculated gamble, President Thabo Mbeki has jettisoned the deep privatisation programme the markets want and set a deadline for the implementation of what is effectively a…
The inauguration of the president and the Cabinet this week also signaled the start of a new set of political and economic debates in South Africa. The new Cabinet is ANC…
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>To win the election the African National Congress ruthlessly used its greatest competitive advantage…
Next week’s Budget will increase state spending on social and economic development programmes and job-creation initiatives while trying to ease the country’s personal tax burden…
Even though informal contacts between Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have produced a number of detailed options for ending…
There is almost no chance of a global trade deal favourable — or at least palatable — to Africa being put in place by 2005, when the Doha round of international trade talks is…
The Presidency has revealed the results of an 18-month long scenario-planning exercise to plot what South Africa will look like in 2014. A review of the African National…
The government made a calculated gamble of over R30-billion this week to accelerate growth and begin to weld together South Africa’s two economies — a first of high skills and…
The government is to stick to its expansionary fiscal policy despite slower than expected economic growth this year. In an interview last week, Kuben Naidoo, of the Budget Office…
The Executive Members Ethics Act and the provisions of the Code of Ethics are not being implemented consistently by Members of Provincial Executive Councils (MECs) and the…
Asked once again what the Commonwealth will be doing to get rid of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, the organisation’s Secretary General, Don McKinnon, points out with wry…
No matter the significant ring of its formal terms of reference, the Hefer Commission of Inquiry into whether National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka was a spy…
Top secret documents reveal that FW de Klerk lied about South Africa’s nuclear programme, reports Paul Stober.
The Democratic Party has put Hougton’s Tony Leon on top of its list of nominees for the national assembly.
The ANC has deffered the issue of political activity in Bophuthatswana to the TEC rather than risk a masscare — or upset negotiations with the FA.
