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29 Sep 2011
 
 
Bank cuts SA growth outlook, says stimulus may be needed to preserve growth
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Banking group Absa Capital, which has typically maintained a more optimistic view of South Africa's growth prospects than many other commentators, has not only lowered it growth forecast for 2011...
 
 
 
 
Daily podcast – September 29, 2011
PODCAST
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) needs to play a more assertive role in helping to resolve economic crises “sooner rather than later” and South Africa would, therefore, support moves to...
 
 
28 Sep 2011
 
SA ready and willing to bolster IMF’s crisis-fighting firepower
ECONOMIC CRISIS
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) needed to play a more assertive role in helping to resolve economic crises “sooner rather than later” and South Africa would, therefore, support moves to...
 
 
Alive to fiscal drag threat, Gordhan hints to prolonged public stimulus
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan indicated on Wednesday that he was alive to the threat posed by a too rapid move towards fiscal consolidation, particularly in an environment where the anticipated...
 
 
26 Sep 2011
 
AfDB loan concludes 100-MW Eskom wind farm funding phase
RENEWABLE ENERGY
The $365-million African Development Bank (AfDB) loan to South African power utility Eskom, which was announced on Sunday, has effectively concluded the funding phase for the 100-MW Sere wind farm...
 
 
23 Sep 2011
 
Can Zuma’s commission close SA’s infrastructure delivery gap?
INFRASTRUCTURE
Despite the rhetoric in the New Growth Path about shifting South Africa’s future economic growth trajectory from the prevailing consumption-led bias to one based on productive activities, South...
 
 
NHI tax on hold for now
NHI
A tax to fund government’s National Health Insurance (NHI) will not be introduced in the short term, says Deputy Director of General Public Finance in the National Treasury, Andrew Donaldson.
 
 
 
 
Daily Podcast – September 23, 2011
PODCAST
President Jacob Zuma has asked police chief General Bheki Cele why he shouldn’t be suspended pending the outcome of the inquiry into two police leases.
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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