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14/04/2021

Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter says appointments of senior managers at Eskom were not motivated by 'ulterior racial motives' but rather by 'performance and delivery', following a raft of allegations against him by now suspended chief procurement officer Solly Tsh*tangano.

14/04/2021

In some Asia-Pacific countries, the unpleasant memory of the pandemic is receding; elsewhere, second or third waves of infections are raging. A recovery is underway, but the regional averages obscure wide differences within and across countries.

12/04/2021

The website you're opening works better when viewed in the new Microsoft Edge. Many web developers are moving towards optimizing their websites for Microsoft Edge, which is replacing Internet Explorer. The new Chromium-based Microsoft Edge offers a more secure, more private, more versatile browsing....

10/04/2021

Enlightened people know that De Klerk and Mandela were crucial in the transformation of Apartheid to a new democracy, recognised by Countries worldwide.

FW De Klerk, who dedicated his presidency to the abolition of apartheid - is usually labelled as “the last apartheid president”.

06/04/2021

It is one year into the COVID-19 pandemic and the global community still confronts extreme social and economic strain as the human toll rises and millions remain unemployed. Yet, even with high uncertainty about the path of the pandemic, a way out of this health and economic crisis is increasingly v...

31/03/2021

News24 spoke to three political analysts about the ramifications of a recent ANC NEC decision for party president Cyril Ramaphosa and its secretary-general Ace Magashule

29/03/2021

We are recruiting a senior research assistant to support the executive chairman on research projects ranging from philanthropy to finance

16/03/2021

In our Spring 2021 issue of F&D on the digital future, Tim Maurer, former director of the Cyber Policy Initiative at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Arthur Nelson, current research analyst at the Cyber Policy Initiative, write that cyber threats to the financial system are growin...

16/03/2021

When it’s cold we reach for the heater, and when it’s hot we turn on the air conditioning. A warming globe could reduce the need for hepwating in cold seasons and increase the demand for cooling when it’s hot. In principle, there is a sweet spot where it is neither too cold nor too hot to dema...

10/03/2021

When lockdown hit South Africa a year ago, the government put an immediate ban on evictions, making life tough for property owners. This continues even at Level 1.

02/03/2021

On a valuation basis property does show upside potential, but there is a large degree of uncertainty.

25/02/2021

Infrastructure expenditure estimated to increase by 20.6% to R226.1bn in 2020/21.