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Costly ambition
23 May 2013

The motor industry's contribution to SA's widening trade deficit has turned the spotlight on the sector's role in the economy.
  • Heavy going for manufacturers
  • A difficult balancing act
  • New policy a hard sell
IN BUSINESS
Deal of the Week: Lonrho
Marc Hasenfuss - 23 May 2013
The longer-term potential of well diversified exposure to the African agri-business sector might explain why Pan...
  • No quick recovery
  • Spanish trawling
  • A giant on the mend
IN ECONOMY
Lean machine or heavy giant?
Sikonathi Mantshantsha - 23 May 2013
Billy Barlow would today notrecognise the corporate giant that the Barloworld group, which he founded with a loan...
  • Streamlined parcel
  • African minefield
  • Sound reasons to return
IN MARKETS
Money talks
Charlotte Mathews & Marc Hasenfuss - 23 May 2013
Most AGMs follow a subdued and orderly ritual. The chairman says a few introductory words, proposals are seconded...
  • Nerves of steel required
  • Equity funds a sideshow
  • Waiting to guide SAA
  • Barclays Africa not there yet
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South Africa faces dual challenge in terms of food security — some starve, others eat too much
Electricity demand comes close to overwhelming Eskom capacity
Court ruling ends war over tyre recycling
Setback for state’s AIDS drugs plan as investor pulls out
Unlisted property sector ‘holds some of SA’s most prized assets’
New Discovery body to research lifestyle diseases
MEDIA & ADVERTISING
A quirky decision
Zweli Mokgata - 23 May 2013
Fran Luckin is leaving Ogilvy & Mather (O&M) Johannesburg to join the Quirk digital marketing agency. She will...
  • Plenty still to be done
  • Family values
  • Taking it indoors
IN SCIENCE AND TECH
Duly noted
Kate Ferreira - 23 May 2013
Samsung's calling its new Note 8.0 the "world's first 8-inch tablet", but with the iPad Mini offering a 7,9-inch...
  • Vault in the cloud
  • Smart move
  • Music to your ears
  • Pump up the volume
IN LIFESTYLE
On its own terms
Dilip Menon - 23 May 2013
India's Hindi film industry, known as Bollywood, celebrates its centenary this month. Dilip Menon, chair of the...
  • Hope out of despair
  • Spotlight on regeneration
  • Puzzling dichotomy
  • 7 questions for Andrea Sullivan
OPINION
  • How to be at the top

    I don't think it's amiss to suggest that Midbrook Lane, Riskowitz Capital Management and Protea Asset Management...

    Market watch
    Marc Hasenfuss

  • Don't drop that name

    Let me get this straight. Justice minister Jeff Radebe says the influential Gupta family, friends and benefactors...

    Food for thought
    Justice Malala

  • Pull together

    Scheduled to take a painfully early flight on Monday, I overslept. Fortunately, I live in Cape Town. I managed to...

    Economic viewpoint
    Nazmeera Moola

MULTIMEDIA
Anglo American Platinum to slash...
- 14 May 2013
Mining company slashes its planned 14 000 retrenchments to 6 000 after government and union backlash.
  • Malema's mansion sold for R5.9m
  • SAA partners with Etihad Airways
MULTIMEDIA
The outcomes of WEF on Africa
- 13 May 2013
Global think tank panelists believe African leaders need to bolster inter-continental trade.
  • DA wants Johannesburg cleaner
  • WEF on Africa kicks off in Cape Town
MULTIMEDIA
DA leads youth wage rally in Orange Farm
- 16 May 2013
DA leader Helen Zille led a youth wage subsidy rally in Orange Farm on Wednesday.
  • World Economic Forum meeting on Africa
  • Johannesburg mayor Parks Tau fights off...
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