Author: staff
The group’s remuneration report for the 2024 financial year shows the combined salaries of its seven executive directors and five prescribed officers topped over R81 million despite it reporting a headline loss from total operations of R2.4 billion.
Xolani Sithebe was at a loss for words after the man, who was last year convicted of having killed his brother, Sibusiso Sithebe, as part of an elaborate plot to fake his own death, finally confessed to the crime during sentencing proceedings on Tuesday.
Botswana’s president Duma Boko, who swept to power in October, said his government has reached a diamond extraction and sales agreement with De Beers. Terms were finalised by midnight on Friday and will be announced soon, Boko said on Tuesday.
DeepSeek, the China-based developer of a new AI chatbot, knows what ‘now-now’ means, thinks Pietermaritzburg-born Kevin Pietersen is Howick’s greatest export, and argued that there is a 50/50 shot the GNU will survive until the next elections.
Former Proteas wicketkeeper-batter coach Trisha Chetty, who has added her invaluable experience to the women’s SA U19 side as fielding coach, believes the team has a great chance to make the country proud in the ongoing T20 World Cup in Malaysia.
When DA leader John Steenhuisen meets President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday evening to discuss tensions over the signing of the Expropriation Bill into law, he intends to assert that his party will not be reduced to a mere spectator in the government of national unity.
The Board of Healthcare Funders has approached the courts to declare the Council for Medical Schemes’ refusal to permit lower-cost medical aids as unlawful, irrational and an unjustified violation of citizens’ constitutional right to healthcare.
DA leader John Steenhuisen says his party invoked section 19 of the government of national unity’s (GNU) statement of intent not so much because of the Expropriation Act’s contents but because of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s alleged refusal to discuss contentious issues with the DA.
Prescient’s new SA-only balanced fund was seeded with an initial investment of R200m and targets an asset mix that includes infrastructure, clean energy and corporate credit alongside traditional asset classes like of equities, bonds and property.
A Durban tenderpreneur and private security company boss, Ferrel Govender, who is accused, along with his brother, Darren, of murdering a businessman, believes that his bail denial would lead to over 3000 employees unemployed and a collapse of his businesses.