Eskom defends asking for waiver

Eskom has defended its decision to ask the National Treasury for a waiver to elements of the current Treasury regulations.

• Standard Bank executives get paid R209m
• Net1's CPS denies dodgy practices
• Downgrade affects Pioneer expansion
• Editor's Note: Gigaba is grace under fire

Minister rejects R30m 'golden handshake' for Brian Molefe

Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown has declined Eskom’s proposal to pay its former CEO Brian Molefe a R30 million pension pay-out.

• Launch of new SA trade union federation gets underway
• Give Gigaba time - Kganyago
• WATCH: Vavi shoe in for new union
• South Africa's rand weakens

Standard Bank executives get paid R209m

Standard Bank last year paid its top six executives a combined R209 million in salaries, bonuses and other benefits.

• Net1's CPS denies dodgy practices
• Downgrade affects Pioneer expansion
• Alleged MTN R24 million fraudster to spend weekend behind bars
• Allan Gray worried over Net1's lending

PICS: Bookstore on wheels turns heads in Baghdad

The Iraqis guarding Baghdad's checkpoints don't know what to make of Ali al-Moussawi when he pulls up in a truck displaying shelves of glossy books.

• PICS: Ivanka's biz prospers as politics mixes with business
• Investors find solar gems
• Paris homes are hot
• Global economic upturn, but threat is protectionism

Firmer rand not good news for shares

The negative correlation between the rand and dollar exchange rate and share prices on the JSE once again proved to be right last week.

• Miners, earnings support European shares
• Bumper maize harvest likely
• 22% rise in Zim gold production
• Gigaba assurance boosts the rand

Editor's Note: Gigaba is grace under fire

New Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba face,s and will continue to face tough negotiations, with international investors and rating agencies writes Adri Senekal de Wet.

• Let's not unlearn the lessons of 2008
• 'Minimum wage won't create jobs'
• Incomes need transforming
• Negative effect of public holidays