KZN’s mystery R61m hospital bus tender
Durban – A tender for four mobile clinics in KwaZulu-Natal will end up costing taxpayers a “crazy” R61m – and only two of the units have been …
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Ebola’s toll on pregnant women
Treatment and care for women with pregnancy-related issues is incredibly complicated in Ebola stricken nations say medical experts.Healthcare worke…
Gauteng takes steps towards paperless education
Grade nine pupils in a school in Tembisa, Johannesburg listen attentively to their teacher as she asks them to work out an equation in a financial lit…
Blackouts cut forecast for interest rates hike
Electricity blackouts are threatening SA’s economic growth, giving investors a reason to scale back bets for higher interest rates.Eskom last week…
It may be ‘slightly harder’ to afford to buy a home
Prospective home-buyers may find it slightly more difficult to afford a property this year than in 2014, because growth in wages and salaries will not…
Disobedience, civil or otherwise, may win the day in e-tolls battle
The resistance to electronic tolling on Gauteng freeways has been hailed as the largest civil disobedience campaign in the history of SA’s democracy…
Public services slashed, with some departments losing 4%
General public services budget allocations have been pared to the bone, with many government departments due to lose 4% a year — given inflation —…
BEE share-purchase deals SA’s biggest corporate fraud
Black economic empowerment (BEE) share-purchase schemes are the biggest untold corporate fraud of 20 years of democracy in South Africa. Vendor compan…
Global players recognise ‘value of emerging markets’
EMERGING – market investment company LeapFrog Investments has raised R4.2bn ($400m) for a new fund, 12 months after the $204m first close of the fun…
Efficient public transport still eludes working-class citizens
The card scanner on Johannesburg’s Rea Vaya bus rapid transit (BRT) system reads “insufficient balance”. The attendants say it’s malfunctionin…