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Featured News Article : An interview with John Field

Progressive Asset Management placed under curatorship

Last week's news that Progressive Investment Trust, Progressive Asset Management (Pty) Ltd, National Financial Partners (Pty) Ltd and Progressive Investment Holdings Ltd had all been placed under provisional curatorship was especially distressing.

Featured News Article : SA grouped among world leaders in CSR policy – study

Stakeholders meet for first policy dialogue on corporate social responsibility

South Africa has emerged amongst the world leaders in public policy concerning corporate social responsibility (CSR) in new research, which puts the country in the company of first world countries including the US, France, Germany and Sweden.

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Duty of employers to ensure their employees remain members of compulsory pension funds
Consumer Protection : Pension Funds Adjudicator
Employers prerogative to decide whether to establish, or join, a pension fund for its employees Full story ... View documents from this organization
Fine line between innocent corporate gifts and corruption
Legal Services & Practices : Deneys Reitz Attorneys
Arrow Altech Distribution (Pty) Ltd v Byrne and Others Full story ... View documents from this organization
Restaurants and waiters protected by unique policy
Software, Solutions, Systems : Dex Group of Companies
Enables restaurants to insure all their waiters collectively on one policy Full story ...
Hollard launches new insurance in Botswana to assist tourism industry
Short Term Insurers : Hollard Insurance
Reaching global standards through proactive risk management and appropriate training Full story ...
Johannesburg High Court places Renaissance under curatorship
Accreditation Bodies : Council for Medical Schemes
Scheme in the red to the tune of approximately R36 million Full story ... View documents from this organization
We’re becoming ‘stable’ at the right time
Asset Managers : STANLIB Asset Management
Vital to have strong-performing funds in the prudential space Full story ... View documents from this organization
Xenophobic attacks
Business Chambers & Forums : Business Unity South Africa
BUSA media statement Full story ...
Retirement savings boost consumption, at the expense of total savings
Surveys & Research : Economic Research Southern Africa
Taxation of benefits paid from retirement funds could alter savings and investment behaviour Full story ...
Debit order alert to new insurance users from FNB Insurance Brokers
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A false economy, exposing the consumer to major risks Full story ...
PwC to launch India-Africa desk
Auditors & Accountants : Price Waterhouse Coopers
Identifying investment opportunities and potential partners Full story ... View documents from this organization
Building industry should not bear brunt of energy crisis
Surveys & Research : Rode & Associates
The burden of electricity constraints should be shared equally by the country as a whole Full story ... View documents from this organization
South Africa’s role in the OECD - instruments on combating bribery of foreign officials
Institutes : Institute of Internal Auditors South Africa
The threat and actual incidents of fraud continue to increase Full story ...
The crime risk implications to residential property performance are vast
Banks & Building Societies : First National Bank Home Loans
Is it possible that crime and violence may be residential property’s “public enemy number one”? Full story ... View documents from this organization
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East Joburg businesses close doors
Sandton police have reported that shops along Johannesburg's Louis Botha avenue have closed down.
Scorpions disbanding 'an ANC agenda'
The government's decision to dissolve the Scorpions was unlawful as it was in the "narrow interests of the ANC", the Pretoria High Court heard.
Violence ruffling 2010 feathers
Safa's CEO has expressed concern about the impact of xenophobic attacks on South Africa's 2010 Fifia World Cup campaign.
Eskom rejects criticism
"South Africa's power utility Eskom's request for a 53 percent real price increase was prudent and based on a sharply higher cost of coal".
SA woman arrested in Poland
A 50-year-old South African woman has been arrested in Poland after allegedly cashing in a bogus cheque and sending the funds to Nigeria.
Fidentia 'kingpin' seeks freedom
Steven Goodwin has launched an urgent application in the Pretoria High Court.
Skills shortage at Eskom a concern
Trade union Solidarity says skills shortage at Eskom is already showing the disadvantages.

Back on the beat
Suspended Ekurhuleni Metro police chief Robert McBride has made an official appearance.

Pakistanis robbed in Pretoria
Two Pakistani nationals were robbed at a shop in Lotus Garden, west of Pretoria.
US urges Tsvangirai to return
Zimbabwe's opposition leader should return home to lead his campaign for president, the US ambassador to the Zimbabwe has said.
Sports News

Lampard's agent slams rumours
Frank Lampard's agent insists there is no truth in reports that the Chelsea midfielder is set to join Inter Milan.
Rassie's raid on Free State
Free State face a battle keeping two of their best young players in Bloemfontein...
Big scores at Interprovincial
Defending champions Western Province have cruised to a 10-0 victory over neighbours Boland at the Spar Women's Interprovincial hockey tournament.
Yellow card rule changed for Euro '08
Any player on a single yellow card at the end of the quarter-final stage of Euro 2008 will have it cancelled.
Istanbul Cup women's singles results
Istanbul Cup women's singles first round results on Tuesday.

Business News

Markets slip on profit-taking, violence
South African markets fell on Tuesday, with stocks giving up recent gains on profit-taking, while the rand and government bonds were hit in part by violent attacks on foreigners.
Oil prices march on relentlessly
The price of oil rocketed to above $129 per barrel for the first time as investors fret that supply channels will not cope with robust demand for petroleum products.
Investors reassured by inflation target talk
ETM Economist says the defence of the inflation targeting framework would be well received by foreign investors.
Three more years of food price hell
A World Bank official says the phenomenon of high food prices is not a short-term issue and will hinder efforts to reduce global poverty.
Government considers restricting coal exports
The department of minerals and energy aims to complete a study well before the end of this year that will look at managing local coal resources to ensure reliable power supply.
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Is the present upheaval different from the 1970s?
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Implacable fundamentals
Good for business
Taxation : Tax
Change to tax policy to be welcomed
Inability to confirm declared income insufficient grounds to decline the application
Views & Letters : Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
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Views & Letters : Letters to the Editor
Selective application of the National Credit Act by Standard Bank
Selective application of the National Credit Act by Standard Bank
Industry & Legislation : NCA
Unfair that you had highlighted only Standard Bank’s behaviour as inconsistent
Letter in response to “Punishing the Poor”, published on 22 April 2008
Views & Letters : Letters to the Editor
Patents are irrelevant in stimulating the development of drugs for diseases
Don't get it
Economy & Global : Local Economy
It has not quite sunk in, except at the SARB
The U.N.'s latest study has told us to starve the poor
Economy & Global : Global Economy
Bureaucracies don't create food - people do
Confidence now rapidly heading south
Economy & Global : Local Economy
Something broke in the opening months of 2008
Punishing the poor
Healthcare Insurance : Medicines
Activists have been trying for years to bring down the pharmaceutical industry
A leadership culture will make South Africa great!
Consumer Affairs : Consumer Affairs
It’s been an interesting year for South Africans so far
BHF representation
Views & Letters : Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Editor
The Inyathelo Philanthropy Awards 2008
Consumer Affairs : Social Comment
Call for Nominations
Letter to the Editor
Views & Letters : Letters to the Editor
Re: It's time
Netcare cautions against collective bargaining
Consumer Affairs : Healthcare
Council for Medical Schemes continues to publish information that is clearly flawed
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Healthcare in South Africa, 2008 Edition
Book Reviews : Book Reviews
More and more people are paying for health care services from their own pockets
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