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Current account gap narrows slightlySA’S CURRENT account deficit improved from the first quarter’s slightly downwardly revised shortfall of 8,9% of GDP to 7,3% of gross domestic product in the second quarter, as exports rose while portfolio investment recovered after a strong outflow in the previous quarter.The Reserve Bank’s September quarterly bulletin said today the current account gap improved, as expected, from the first quarter’s slightly downwardly revised shortfall of 8,9% of GDP, the biggest deficit in almost three decades.
The Bank said the deficit continued to be adequately financed, with portfolio flows rebounding from the previous quarter’s slump.
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Zimbabwe’s opposition says lost faith in talks
HARARE — Zimbabwe’s main opposition party has lost faith in power-sharing talks with President Robert Mugabe and will leave him to form a government alone rather than be forced into a deal, a party official said today.
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LIBERTY Holdings said today it plans to buy the remaining 48% it does not already own of insurer Liberty Group.
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BUSINESS confidence index (BCI) fell to a five-year low of 90,5 in August from 92,8 in July as weaker local and global economic activity weighed on sentiment, a survey showed today.
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Trans Hex shares jump 3% on talks with De Beers
SHARES in Trans Hex Group rose nearly 3% after the diamond producer said it was in talks over a unit of the world’s top producer of diamonds, De Beers.
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JSE moves higher on bargain hunting
SOUTH African stocks rose at midday as investors chased after bargains following recent sharp losses, traders said. Stocks initially bounced between positive and negative, unsure of their next move after both Asian markets and Wall Street finished lower, traders said.
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Thai army disobeys PM’s orders — so what’s new?
BANGKOK — In July 2006, an 85-year-old Thai general dressed up in full military regalia to address a bunch of graduating young officers. It was no ordinary passing out parade.
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Budget shock for Zuma as surplus ‘disappears’
IT SEEMS increasingly likely that the government’s much- vaunted budget surplus will not be available to its successors next year, with much of the funds already committed to rescuing Eskom and paying higher wages to public sector workers.
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Gilded youth make their mark on JSE
THE youngest nonexecutive director of a JSE-listed company is 23 and the oldest is in his eighties, according to a report released by PricewaterhouseCoopers yesterday.
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State on track to top its jobs goal
THE government has paid more than R3bn in wages to unemployed people participating in its expanded public works programme. It will comfortably exceed its target of 1- million job opportunities over five years by the time the first phase of the programme ends next year.
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Pityana bemoans SA’s ‘culture of intolerance’
FOR the first time since attaining democracy in 1994, the atmosphere of freedom of expression and academic endeavour enjoyed by South Africans is under threat, University of SA vice-chancellor Prof Barney Pityana said yesterday.
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Hi-tech scan centres look set to sink
CAPE TOWN — SA’s private PET-CT scanning centres are struggling to recoup their multi-million-rand investments in state of the art cancer diagnosis equipment, warning that they will be forced to close shop by the middle of next year unless medical schemes relax their restrictions on patients’ access to their services.
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Zille goes on the offensive after ruling on Erasmus commission
CAPE TOWN — Democratic Alliance (DA) leader and Cape Town mayor Helen Zille yesterday listed a string of actions her party is going to take in the aftermath of a Cape High Court judgment which exonerated the city of any wrongdoing in the so-called “spygate” saga.
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 Sarah Palin broke a five-day silence and talked her way into Republican hearts and minds. Here she is pictured with the Republican presidential candidate John McCain at the party’s national convention. Picture: Reuters.Read more...
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GLOBAL internet giant Google is being investigated by the Competition Commission for allegedly abusing its dominance by trying to steal a customer away from Cape-based e-marketing company Entelligence.
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METROPOLITAN Holdings, SA’s fourth-biggest insurer, has been awarded the Government Employees Medical Scheme (Gems) administration contract for a second term due to what it said was its ability to set the standard in large-scale administration efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
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IT HAS been more than two weeks since I looked at the results of Liberty Group for the half-year ended June 30, and prefaced my planned comment on the results with a column in which I told why Jean and I swapped Liberty Holdings shares mainly for Sasol.
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CONSUMER electronics group Amalgamated Appliance Holdings (APH) said yesterday it had been forced to embark on a major restructuring of its businesses to survive a turbulent trading environment in which it recorded its worst operating results in the year to June for more than a decade.
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Intellectual Property - Part 27 (2008-09-03 23:57)
The Summit TV speaks to Ross Addis from Siemens IT Services & Solutions and James Davies from Adams & Adams Attorneys about how information technology entrepreneurs can protect their software intellectual property rights
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First coal soon for Keaton (2008-09-03 23:57)
Summit TV speaks to Paul Miller from Keaton Energy on their acquisition of a small deposit of coal to bring to market quickly as they develop their larger coal project near Delmas
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Discovery profit up 39% (2008-09-03 23:56)
Summit TV speaks to Adrian Gore from Discovery Holdings about their results, and their prospects going forward
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The markets (2008-09-03 23:50)
Summit TV takes a look at Wednesday on the markets with David Shapiro from Sasfin Frankel Pollack
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