Mbombela - Mpumalanga’s Education MEC Reginah Mhaule has warned that any independent school that produces a pass rate of less than 50% in their matric results will be closed down.Mhaule was speaking to African Eye News Service following a press briefing held in White River.“We had a meeting...

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The UK government has “lost patience” with austerity, and with a general election two years away, has abandoned it in favour of a new bout of debt...

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I recently received a plea from a lady living in Thailand to warn people against a well-known locally-based financial adviser to expats for “locking clients into long-term investment products promising high returns, but in actuality delivering low returns and high fees.” Her own experience has included suspension of two of five funds in which her [...]High Costs for Poor Returns is a post from: TheBizSense Views & Forecasting



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There have been recent media reports which have implicated Athletics South Africa in the affairs of Soweto Marathon. The following needs to be made clear: The race was started by then Transvaal affiliate of SAACON many years ago. Athletics South Africa only became involved when some of the founding members and organisers of the race [...]ASA statement related to Soweto Marathon is a post from: Time-to-Run South Africa



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The penultimate race in the Spur KZN Trail Series took place in the tranquil setting of the Kenneth Stainbank Nature Reserve, despite the weather spicing things up with clouds building overhead and the threat of rain becoming more and more imminent closer to start time. The Championship Race saw men and women complete two laps [...]A Race against the Storm is a post from: Trail Running South Africa



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When I started trading forex back in 2002, like most novice, home based forex traders I was actually gambling. I have never gambled in my life nor...

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You don’t have to be a professional fund manager to make good profits on the stockmarket. Over several decades of advising people in South Africa how to invest, I told them: “You could do very much better than the professionals, because you don’t have to follow the crowd timidly to avoid criticism of mistakes, and [...]How You Can Best the Professionals is a post from: TheBizSense Views & Forecasting



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Much of that Debt Could Simply Vanish Instead of selling its huge holdings of UK government bonds bought to finance fiscal deficits, which would push up interest rates and hamper economic recovery, the Bank of England could just “retire the debt” (cancel the bonds and write off the losses), suggests fund manager Jim Leaviss. His [...]Debt Could Simply Vanish is a post from: TheBizSense Views & Forecasting



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Midrand - Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) is an integral part of South Africa’s economic policies and transformation, says...

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Eskom and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) are to sign a R1.3 billion loan agreement, the power parastatal has announced. Eskom on Tuesday......

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