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ELECTRICITY TARIFF

Electricity supply at risk if tariff hike not granted

The country's electricity supply would be at risk if Eskom did not receive its 34% tariff hike, its chief executive Jacob Maroga said on Tuesday.
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In today's podcast, the HSRC reports that South Africa's infection rate has levelled off at a prevalence of 10,9%; Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane says that employment and job creation will be at the centre of Gauteng's policy ;and President Jacob Zuma says that the...
HIV/AIDS

E Cape ‘carrying burden from other provinces’

The Eastern Cape is bearing a burden of disease displaced from other provinces, the pro...
BUSINESS CONFIDENCE

Business confidence index slipped in Q2

The Rand Merchant Bank (RMB)/ Bureau for Economic Research (BER) Business Confidence In...
REPLY TO S.O.N.A. DEBATE

SA macro-economic environment will not change – Zuma

South Africa's stable macro-economic environment is not going to change, President Jaco...
MADAGASCAR

France, UN warn against Madagascar military option

France and the United Nations (UN) both warned on Tuesday against military intervention...
Opinion

Constitutional Court Appointments Will Test Judicial Waters

When the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) meets later this year to consider who will replace four titans of the Constitutional Court when their terms expire this October, it will be one of the first real opportunities to assess where our courts stand since this year's election.

A Border Patrol for South Africa?

South Africa's new president, Jacob Zuma, delivered his first state of the nation address on Wednesday this week. While the main focus of the address was on the economy and job creation, there was also a good deal of interest in President Zuma's speech for those concerned with the nation's security.

Attracting the youth vote

After their third landslide victory, the African National Congress now occupies 264 of the 400 seats in South Africa's parliament. In the post-mortem of the April 2009 polls, many of the opposition parties who won only a handful of seats will probably be left wondering how they got it all wrong....

Consolidating the Rule of Law in African States

"The rule of law" is a phrase that rolls easily off the tongue. It is invoked in many contexts, often with a casualness that leads easily to our underestimating its importance in defining the relationship of the state and its rulers to the citizenry at large. On this view, it becomes apparent...
Recommendations

South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence, Behaviour and Communication Survey 2008 (May 2009)

This report, from the Human Sciences Research Council, is the third in a series of population-based HIV/Aids surveys. These surveys started in 2002 and were repeated in 2005.

Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2009 (June 2009)

The United Nations Environment Programme stresses in this report that a 'green economy' approach to the...

Democratic Alliance response to the State of the Nation address

This document contains the party’s press statement after the opening of Parliament, as well as the speech by the DA’s leader at the Parliamentary debate on the State of the Nation address.

Press statement:

Despite President...

Independent Democrats response to the State of the Nation address

This document contains the ID’s press statement after the opening of Parliament, as well as the speech by the ID’s leader at the Parliamentary debate on the State of the Nation address.

Press statement:

ID...

Inkatha Freedom Party response to the State of the Nation address

This document contains the IFP’s press statement after the opening of Parliament, as well as the speech by the IFP's leader at the Parliamentary debate on the State of the Nation address.

Press statement:

The President of the...

Legislation