Author: staff
Battery maker and automotive components supplier Metair has warned that it swung into a loss in its year to end December, buffeted by low automotive volumes in SA, restructuring costs and pressure from the sale of its Turkish battery business.
The 14 SA National Defence Force soldiers who died during a peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo “did not perish like cowards”, their families were told when they sought answers to their questions on what transpired there.
Nafiz Modack rounded off his first two days of evidence-in-chief in the Charl Kinnear murder trial with an increasingly complicated explanation for his dealings with the two people alleged to have helped him set up a hand grenade attack on Kinnear’s house.
The Department of Communications and Digital Technology wants R150 million re-allocated from its rural and underserved area connectivity programme to the ailing South African Post Office as a short-term measure to allow it to keep operating.
While the Presidency prepares its envoy to Washington, Standard Bank’s chief economist Goolam Ballim says that the country’s efforts to resolve its dispute with the US and its President Donald Trump would amount to ‘bringing a knife to a gunfight’.
A governing body of a top boys’ preparatory school in KwaZulu-Natal has gone to the High Court to set aside the appointment of the principal after alleging he misrepresented his education qualifications and previous experience when applying for the post.
In his capacity as the commander-in-chief of the SA National Defence Force, President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to receive the bodies of 14 soldiers who died during combat against M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Although the MK Party bagged 54% of the vote in a ward in the uMhlabuyalingana Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal during the general elections in May and took all the voting districts there, its support has nosedived to 19% in this week’s by-elections.
British American Tobacco reported a £6.2 billion (almost R143 billion) hit from a long-running lawsuit in Canada on Thursday and warned of “significant” headwinds in Bangladesh and Australia in 2025 after annual revenue missed forecasts.
The original grants of Pepfar-funded organisations who are funded through the Centres for Disease Control have been reinstated. This is because a federal judge enforced a temporary restraining order blocking US President Donald Trump’s administration from freezing federal grants.