# South Africans can expect huge relief at the fuel pumps early next month. The Central Energy Fund’s latest data shows a strong over-recovery in petrol and diesel prices. Petrol prices are currently over-recovered by 2.94-rand per litre, andbetween 4.57- and 4.97-rand per litre for diesel. Analysts say this points to notable fuel price cuts […]
# Unilever is aangesê om die verpakking van sy Sunlight Platinum-skottelgoedwasmiddel te verander nadat die Advertensie-reguleringsraad bevind het sy bemarkings-bewerings is misleidend. Die voorkant van die bottel adverteer ‘n 100-persent plantgebaseerde formule. ‘n Verbruikersklag het egter onthul daar staan agterop in kleinletters dat ander nie-plantgebaseerde bestanddele ingesluit is. Die onderneming voer aan die voorkant verwys […]
# Unilever has been ordered to alter the packaging of its Sunlight Platinum dishwashing liquid after the Advertising Regulatory Board found its marketing claims to be misleading. The front label prominently advertised a “100-percent plant-based active” formulation. A consumer complaint however revealed the back label says “other non-plant-based actives are included” in small print. The company argued […]
# Business Leadership South Africa sê ware mededinging in die elektrisiteitsmark, en nie net hervorming in naam nie, is noodsaaklik om de-industrialisering weens jare lange skerp prysverhogings om te keer. Eskom se herstrukturering-taakspan is besig om ʼn heeltemal onafhanklike, staatsbeheerde transmissiestelsel-operateur te vestig. Dit sal transmissie-bates besit en beheer, en verantwoordelik wees om die elektrisiteitsmark […]
# Business Leadership South Africa says genuine competition in electricity and not reform in name only, is essential to reversing the de-industrialisation caused by years of steep price increases that undermined manufacturing competitiveness. Eskom’s restructuring task team is working to establish a fully independent, state-owned Transmission System Operator which will own and control transmission assets and […]
# Die regse kandidaat, Abelardo de la Espriella, het die presidentsverkiesing in Colombië gewen en die linkse Iván Cepeda net-net verslaan. Volgens voorlopige uitslae deur die Nasionale Burgerlike Register, het die 47-jarige prokureur en sakeman 49,8-persent van die stemme ingepalm en Cepeda 48,7-persent. De la Espriella, wat deur die Amerikaanse president, Donald Trump, ondersteun word, […]
# Die landbou-organisasie, TLU SA, sê die vervanging van die minister van Landbou, John Steenhuisen, sal nie die bek-en-klouseer-krisis oplos nie. DA-leier Geordin Hill-Lewis het president Cyril Ramaphosa gevra om Steenhuisen te vervang met die huidige minister van Bosbou, Visserye en die Omgewing, Willie Aucamp. TLU SA se president, Bennie van Zyl, sê die regering moet […]
# Agricultural organisation TLU SA says replacing minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, will not resolve the foot-and-mouth crisis. DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis has asked president Cyril Ramaphosa to replace Steenhuisen with the current minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Willie Aucamp. TLU SA’s president, Bennie van Zyl, says what is needed is for government to change […]
# Die Openbare Beleggingskorporasie se raadsvoorsitter, adjunkminister van Finansies David Masondo, gaan die saak oor die Acupulco-beleggingsooreenkoms na die Spesiale Ondersoekeenheid verwys. Dit volg na ʼn regsoorsig van PwC se forensiese ondersoek na die transaksie. Die OBK het in 2013 sowat 333-miljoen-rand se befondsing aan Acapulco beskikbaar gestel om ʼn 25-persent aandeel in Lanseria Internasionale Lughawe […]
