The narrow black economic empowerment focus has "set back" South Africa's critical mining sector.

Eskom has finally submitted its new funding model to Cabinet for approval and expects to be given further government guarantees to bridge a funding shortfall of R190 billion over seven years.

The unbanked in South Africa have put about R12 billion "under mattresses".

The Black Management Forum will hold discussions on the institutionalisation of BBBEE framework at its conference this year

ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has attacked ANC leaders denying nationalisation was party policy, saying they were "denouncing" the Freedom Charter.

Shocked Cosatu officials say they are struggling to convince their members that government's wage deal should be accepted.

Market authorities are probing 40 cases of potential illegal market activities, including alleged misleading results from Harmony and insider trading in Dimension Data.

Industrial conglomerate Steinhoff International Holdings plans to up its investments in Europe, as the region is the fastest growing among its operating areas.

Eskom expects further government guarantees to bridge its financial gap of R190bn over seven years, it has told parliament.

A land revolution is necessary, but SA will not go about it the same way as Zimbabwe, says the ANC Youth League president.

A reader, Ms L, earlier this year complained to Personal Finance that a testamentary trust established on the death of her father in 1998 was subject to unacceptable charges by a Cape Town-based law firm, Millers Incorporated. The only beneficiaries of the HL Will Trust were Ms L and her younger brother. Ms L's father appointed her and lawyer David Gruss, a director of law firm Gruss Katz, as the co-trustees.

Investment income kept most medical schemes in the black last year, despite the shortfall between contributions and claims.

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A strategic national plan for the mining sector needs to be developed first.

Analysts predict merged Metropolitan and Momentum will take 3 years to reduce prices.

Digging around the bars of Kitwe, for the truth about Frontier.

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