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DA: Statement by David Maynier, Democratic Alliance shadow minister of defence an milityary veterans, calling on Sisulu to not hide behind air force chief (22/01/2012)

Statements

The Democratic Alliance (DA) believes that Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Lindiwe Sisulu, must break her silence and make a public statement setting out all the facts concerning...

E-billing – the terms and conditions are not being clearly communicated to consumers

CLIFFE DEKKER HOFMEYR

Under the spirit and letter of the Consumer Protection Act (CPA), SANRAL ought to do more to educate consumers as to how the toll road e-billing system will work, their financial obligations (which...

World Economic Situation and Prospects 2012 (January 2012)

ECONOMICS

The world economy is on the brink of another major downturn. Global economic growth started to decelerate on a broad front in mid-2011 and is estimated to have averaged 2.8 per cent over the last...

COP 17 and what is to be done about mitigation

HOT SPOT

The climate negotiations in Durban led to agreement on four broad things. The negotiators agreed to continue under the Kyoto Protocol for a few more years. At the same time, a new agreement will be...

New legal trends require professionals to upgrade skills

Legal Education

As of 2012, the Wits School of Law is introducing a new suite of specialised postgrauate diplomas to compliment the existing Master of Laws (LLM) degree. Concurrently a revised Bachelor of Law...

Amid global uncertainty Africa needs to seize emerging opportunities

AFRICA ECONOMY

There is renewed and growing investor interest in Africa, which is poised to continue to grow, despite the turmoil being caused by the eurozone sovereign debt crisis and the US’s debt problems,...

SARB: Statement by Gill Marcus, South African Reserve Bank Governor, on the Monetary Policy Committee meeting (19/01/2012)

Statements

Since the previous meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee, the outlook for domestic inflation and economic growth has deteriorated, posing a serious challenge for monetary policy going...

SA: Mbeki: Address by former president of South Africa, at the Makerere conference, Kampala (19/01/2012)

2012

First of all I would like to thank Professor Mamdani and the Makerere Institute of Social Research for taking the initiative to convene this Conference to discuss urgent and important matters that...

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