# Brent-ruolie-pryse het vandag tot bo 100-dollar per vat gestyg, ‘n hoogtepunt van meer as ses weke, en die simboliese vlak die eerste keer sedert 24 Julie oorgesteek terwyl die verergerende konflik in die Midde-Ooste kommer laat toeneem oor olie-vloei in die streek. Brent-pryse het sedert vroeg verlede maand met 25-persent gestyg terwyl die hoop […]
# Solidarity has expressed concern over growing mining retrenchments after Sibanye-Stillwater announced one-thousand-114 employees and contractors could be affected by restructuring at its Kwezi shaft in Rustenburg, North West. Spokesperson Willie Venter says one-thousand-214 jobs are under threat at De Beers’ Venetia mine and one-thousand-800 at Petra Diamonds’ Finsch and Cullinan mines. He says it’s […]
# Western Cape MEC Ivan Meyer opened EOT Solutions’ new 30-million-rand advanced manufacturing facility at Freeport Saldanha in the Western Cape. The facility supports about 15 direct jobs and introduces world-class metal processing technology, including one of South Africa’s largest fibre laser beam cutting machines. Meyer says the investment supports the province’s Growth for Jobs […]
# Brent crude oil rose past 100-dollar a barrel today, hitting a more than six-week high and breaching the symbolic threshold for the first time since July 24 as intensifying conflict in the Middle East heightened concerns about oil flows from the region. Brent crude prices have risen by 25-percent since early last month as […]
# Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it fired ballistic missiles at a base in Jordan used by the US military and attacked 10 ships after America said it had destroyed five Iranian oil tankers. This is a sharp escalation of the six-month-old war. Increased attacks by both sides have shattered a month of relative calm, hitting […]
# The son of Richemont chairperson Johann Rupert, Anton, has been appointed as the company’s non-executive, co-deputy chairperson. Rupert senior, South Africa’s richest person with a net worth estimated at over 262-billion-rand, founded the Swiss-based luxury goods holding company in 1988. It owns brands such as Cartier and Van Cleef & Arpels. Thirty-nine-year-old Anton Rupert […]
# Ekonome waarsku Suid-Afrika se suikerbedryf ondervind toenemende druk weens goedkoop invoere, die sluiting van suikermeulens en koste-stygings. Meer as ‘n miljoen mense is afhanklik van die bedryf, wat sowat 270-duisend regstreekse en onregstreekse werksgeleenthede ondersteun. Oxford Economics se ekonoom, Jee-A van der Linde, sê Tongaat Hulett het likwidasie vrygespring danksy staatsgesteunde finansiële hulp, maar […]
# Sokker: Die Activists and Citizens Forum vra ‘n leierskaps-verandering in die Suid-Afrikaanse Sokkervereniging voor die naweek se verkiesingskonferensie. Die forum se woordvoerder, Dennis Bloem, sê SAFA se president, Danny Jordaan, is ‘n las en moet opsystaan weens berigte oor finansiële uitdagings. Hy sê dringende ingryping is nodig. Bloem beklemtoon die forum se steun aan […]
# ActionSA says it must be made clear to Ekurhuleni residents that the ANC has no appetite for insourcing, having voted against an insourcing motion in 2022.The party’s Tumelo Tshabalala says Mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza announced 593 cleaning and security posts in March, but six months later none have been filled despite budget approval. He argues […]
