Headline News
High Court orders Trillian to pay back Eskom R595m 
By: News24Wire 18th June 2019 Trillian Capital Partners has been ordered to pay back Eskom almost R595-million by the High Court in Pretoria. The ruling was handed down on... →
SAA defends interim CEO, warns against strikes
By: News24Wire 18th June 2019 The board of South African Airways has backed its new interim CEO Zukisa Ramasia after the South African Airways Pilots Association criticised her... →
Dirco investigating the authenticity of Zindzi Mandela tweets
By: African News Agency 18th June 2019 International Relations Minister, Naledi Pandor, on Tuesday, said that her department will investigate the authenticity of the tweets from South... →
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Opinions
Why 'pro-poor' policies on their own won't shift inequality in South Africa
18th June 2019 Sociologist Goran Therborn has probably influenced the study of inequality more than any other scholar in recent years. Invited to locate... →
Threat of new designer drugs for Southern Africa
18th June 2019 Designer drugs are among the fastest-growing and most versatile substances in the global illicit drugs economy. Known as ‘new psychoactive... →
Kenya’s 2019 budget speech: do finance minister’s numbers add up?
18th June 2019 On 13 June 2019 Kenya’s finance minister Henry Rotich announced his budget for the 2019/20 financial year, which starts on 1 July. Rotich said the... →
Marking June 16 this year
18th June 2019 Visiting any mall or reading advertising inserts in South African newspapers or emails from various commercial outlets, one learns that June 16 is... →
Recommendations
Renewable Energy and Jobs – Annual Review 2019
13th June 2019 The widespread adoption of renewable energy technologies creates employment opportunities up and down the supply chain. Worldwide, the sector... →
Investing in (and for) Our Future
By: Creamer Media Reporter 13th June 2019 This paper identifies more focused reforms around defined contribution plans, which have grown increasingly around the world. It identifies... →
World Investment Report 2019
13th June 2019 The World Investment Report supports policymakers by monitoring global and regional foreign direct investment trends and documenting national and... →
Examining the Impact of E-Procurement in Ukraine
12th June 2019 This paper examines the impact of Ukraine’s ambitious procurement reform on outcomes amongst a set of procurements that used competitive tendering.... →
Statements
Outa: Scrapping e-tolls makes economic sense – OUTA
Updated 7 hours ago OUTA denounces claims by Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) that as many as 38 000 potential indirect jobs could be lost should the Gauteng e-toll... →
City of Cape Town: Cape Town dam levels recovering slowly but surely
18th June 2019 Dams that supply the metro are slowly but surely recovering, increasing by 0,7% for the past week of 10-16 June 2019. Read more below: This week’s... →
SA: President Ramaphosa saddened by R81 road deaths
18th June 2019 President Cyril Ramaphosa has this morning 17 June 2019, expressed devastation and sadness at the death of the twenty-four persons who lost their... →
SAA: SAA warns that more threats to embark on industrial action could hurt the airline
18th June 2019 South African Airways (SAA) has noted with deep sense of disappointment comments attributed to the airline's pilots’ association, South African... →
Press Offices
Baker McKenzie Releases Cross-Border IPO Index H1 2019 – Africa
18th June 2019 Capital raised by African issuers declined by 28% year on year to USD 341-million in the first half of 2019 (H1 2019), compared with USD... →
Assessing legal risks in the move to Cloud
14th June 2019 With the fourth industrial revolution in full swing, businesses are looking for faster and more efficient ways to service customers. Customers are... →
Align corporate decisions with best practice, effortlessly
14th June 2019 Lexis Nexis, in collaboration with many specialist legal practitioners has compiled a useful, easy-to-navigate online tool called Lexis Practical... →
Norton Rose Fulbright bolsters projects and infrastructure practices with senior appointment in Cape Town
13th June 2019 Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright today announced the return of Matthew Ash, a projects, energy and infrastructure lawyer who re-joins its Cape... →
