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20 May 2013
                       
 
 
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09 Apr 2013
 
 
SA spends much less on defence in GDP terms than the global average
Aerospace and Defence
outh Africa today spends about 1% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on defence, in comparison to the global average figure of 2.5%, reported auditing and consultancy firm Deloitte on Tuesday....
 
 
30 Jan 2013
 
NBI: Statement by the National Business Initiative, group of leading national and multi-national companies, South African companies take lead in committing to United Nations Global Compact (30/01/2013)
STATEMENT
South African companies are taking the lead globally in voluntarily committing to the United Nations Global Compact, with twelve companies becoming signatories in the current 2013 financial year....
 
 
20 Nov 2012
 
SA: Statement by the South African National Roads Agency, on alleged e-toll roadblocks (20/11/2012)
STATEMENT
An independent investigation, conducted earlier this year, found that there was no evidence to support any of the claims made, and that have since re-emerged, that employees of SANRAL or its...
 
 
21 Oct 2012
 
DA: Statement by Helen Zille, Leader of the Democratic Alliance, declares that Manase report must be released (21/10/2012)
STATEMENT
We are here today to show that we will not tolerate corruption and the protection of corrupt politicians and government officials.
 
 
01 Oct 2012
 
SA: Statement by Hugh Glenister, Johannesburg Businessperson, on associates of Stellenbosch University' success in the Hugh Glenister Challenge (01/10/2012)
STATEMENT
The battle against corruption took a step forward over the weekend when two associates of Stellenbosch University’s (SU) School for Public Leadership (SPL)...
 
 
31 Jul 2012
 
Integrated approach key to successful infrastructure development
INFRASTRUCTURE
The growing number of infrastructure projects in South Africa, and the rest of Africa, as well as the need to attract investment have increased the pressure for timely and cost-effective delivery...
 
 
18 Nov 2011
 
Uncertainty surrounds the COP 17 outcomes
Polity Focus
If the leading countries participating in the seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP 17) negotiations do not make a firm decision to have a second commitment period, following the first phase...
 
 
15 Sep 2011
 
Businesses urged to get involved in climate negotiating process
CLIMATE CHANGE
South African companies should be aware that business is being given an opportunity to engage in global climate change negotiations not only as an observer, but through stakeholder programmes and...
 
 
01 Jul 2011
 
PPI Bill will affect how the media deals with sources
Media Law
The newly drafted Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Bill, which will be promulgated in September, will affect the way in which the media deals with its sources and may increase the...
 
 
03 Jun 2011
 
 
 
Protection of Personal Information Bill
VIDEO
The business world is currently debating the Protection of Personal Information Bill. Advisory firm Deloitte director for tax and legal affairs, Dean Chivers, explains more about this Bill, which...
 
 
05 Nov 2010
 
 
 
Generating praise and concern
Company Law
Despite the concerns surrounding the new Companies Act, No 71 of 2008, and the lengthy period to finalise it, the aim of the Act is to make business proceedings easier, says global accounting and...
 
 
09 Jun 2010
 
African economies should boost tax collection, cut reliance on aid
TAXATION & AID
African economies could, and had to, boost tax collections and reduce their reliance on aid, Jean-Philippe Stijns, an economist at the Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic...
 
 
07 May 2010
 
 
 
Guidelines met with mixed feelings
Tax, Customs and Excise
Global accounting and consulting firm Deloitte has mixed feelings about the publication of the Customs Administrative Monetary Penalty and the Excise Administrative Monetary Penalty System,...
 
 
17 Feb 2010
 
New vehicle owners to pay emissions tax from Sept 1
2010 BUDGET
The proposed carbon dioxide (CO2) vehicle emissions tax, which will come into effect on September 1, would now be implemented as a specific tax and not as an ad valorem tax, the National Treasury...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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