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High-temperature reactor phoenix emerging from PBMR ashes? 
By: Terence Creamer 3rd April 2017 Early-stage research into the possible revival of the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) has yielded a revamped reactor concept that incorporates an entirely new operational philosophy, as well as the use of construction materials and manufacturing techniques that were either not considered or... →
SA at crossroads as state capture undermines democracy – Jonas
By: News24Wire 31st March 2017 Axed Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas on Friday said that state capture is a national issue all South Africans need to take a stand against. South Africa is at a crossroads which should not be taken lightly, said Jonas. →

Outgoing Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas
Pravin Gordhan – Our souls are not for sale
By: News24Wire 31st March 2017 Former Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan defended the integrity of Treasury and denied allegations that his removal had anything to do with so-called secret meetings intended to undermine the current government. Gordhan addressed media and staff at a briefing following his axing on the early hours... →

Pravin Gordhan & Mcebisi Jonas
Gordhan opens up about Habib Bank
By: News24Wire 31st March 2017 Sacked Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on Friday said it’s up to his successor Malusi Gigaba to take decisions regarding Gupta-linked Vardospan’s bid to take over Habib Bank. Gordhan was speaking at a briefing at Treasury, following his axing on Friday morning. →

Outgoing Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan
Cabinet reshuffle places South Africa firmly in junk status crosshairs
By: Natasha Odendaal 31st March 2017 As South Africa reels from the news of another Cabinet reshuffle overnight, the damage to business confidence and a renewed threat of a ratings downgrade should not be underestimated. After a week of speculation, President Jacob Zuma on Thursday night made sweeping changes to his Cabinet,... →

Gordhan is inciting a revolution – eThekwini ANCYL 
By: African News Agency 31st March 2017 The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in eThekwini Region has accused outgoing Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan of inciting a revolution, saying that it was extremely concerned at the nature and content of his media briefing. “Never in a million years did we imagine a day where a... →

Outgoing Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan
Teacher union lashes Zuma over Muthambi appointment
By: African News Agency 31st March 2017 The South African Democratic Teachers Union (Sadtu) on Friday accused President Jacob Zuma of “rewarding mediocrity” after he moved Faith Muthambi from the communications ministry to become the new Minister of Public Service and Administration through a cabinet reshuffle that has drawn wide... →

Treasury has been captured – EFF 
By: African News Agency 31st March 2017 South Africa’s Treasury has been captured by the controversial Gupta family who have used President Jacob Zuma as their tool, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) said on Friday. “This Treasury and the country have been captured…we are in a crisis, we are going to do anything in our power to fight... →

EFF leader Julius Malema
Gigaba meets Treasury Exco, to brief media on Saturday
By: African News Agency 31st March 2017 South Africa’s new Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba would meet with the National Treasury executive committee on Friday as he prepared to take over control of the public purse, his office said. In a short statement, Gigaba’s office said he was humbled by his appointment to serve the country and its... →

Finance minister designate Malusi Gigaba
Outa seeks legal action in the wake of Cabinet Reshuffle
By: African News Agency 31st March 2017 The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) said on Friday that it was exploring legal action and would persuade influential people in authority to support this objective following the axing of outgoing Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan. Outa’s decision to seek legal action comes after the Democratic... →

ANC calls for unity following Zuma's reshuffle
By: News24Wire 31st March 2017 The African National Congress (ANC) on Friday neither welcomed nor condemned President Jacob Zuma’s Cabinet reshuffle. Instead, the party called for its members to display unity. →

DA asks Mbete for urgent sitting over reshuffle
By: News24Wire 31st March 2017 Democratic Alliance (DA) chief whip John Steenhuisen has written to National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete to ask for a debate of a motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma. Parliament goes on recess for the Easter holidays on Friday, and only resumes in May. →

Mixed reactions to Zuma reshuffle
By: News24Wire 31st March 2017 The African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL) and government have welcomed the appointment of new ministers, amid growing opposition to President Jacob Zuma's Cabinet reshuffle. The ANCWL's Moekgo Matuba applauded Zuma for being cognisant of the gender parity policy of the ANC and... →

President Jacob Zuma
Sky will not fall under Gigaba's leadership – ANCYL
By: News24Wire 31st March 2017 The sky will not fall under new Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba, in spite of scare-mongers, the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) said on Friday. "The ANC Youth League is excited, happy, overjoyed and jubilant at the announcement by President Jacob Zuma on the Cabinet reshuffle,"... →

Incoming Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba
Ramaphosa against Gordhan’s removal 
By: African News Agency 31st March 2017 Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday expressed his dissatisfaction with the sacking of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, adding that President Jacob Zuma presented the top African National Congress (ANC) leadership with a “ready made” list of the new Cabinet without consultation. Ramaphosa... →

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa
Only crime Gordhan, Jonas committed was being incorruptible – Jackson Mthembu
By: News24Wire 31st March 2017 The only crime Pravin Gordhan and Mcebisi Jonas have committed is being incorruptible, African National Congress (ANC) chief whip Jackson Mthembu says. The chief whip has been a staunch and vocal supporter of the former finance minister and his deputy, calling for party leaders to rally behind them. →

Fired ministers not lost to ANC – Duarte
By: News24Wire 31st March 2017 While they may not agree with President Jacob Zuma's choices, the African National Congress (ANC) must still rally behind new and old Cabinet ministers, party deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte said on Friday. "Congratulations to all the new ministers appointed by the President. Ministers who... →

Thanks, and goodbye – Gordhan
By: African News Agency 31st March 2017 Axed finance minister Pravin Gordhan on Friday paid tribute to ordinary South Africans for their support during his tenure at the helm of National Treasury. “Thank you very much for being here, and for demonstrating this solidarity. We have had a meeting with the staff of the Treasury and we said... →

Outgoing Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan
Gigaba will do Guptas' bidding – SACP
By: News24Wire 31st March 2017 Incoming finance minister Malusi Gigaba was selected solely to do the Gupta family’s bidding at the Treasury, the South African Communist Party (SACP) said on Friday. "The Guptas have almost, now with the removal of [Finance Minister] Pravin Gordhan, ensured that they have unfettered access to... →

Incoming Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba
Be positive! - axed Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom
By: News24Wire 31st March 2017 South Africans must remain positive following the mass Cabinet reshuffle by President Jacob Zuma, outgoing Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom said on Friday. He took to Twitter on Thursday evening to thank people for their support. →

'Government, it’s not for me' – Ramatlhodi
By: News24Wire 31st March 2017 Outgoing Public Administration Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi was not informed that his time as member of President Jacob Zuma's Cabinet had come to an end. Speaking to News24 while playing a game of golf on Friday morning, he said he had accepted that Zuma no longer wanted him to serve as a minister. →

Outgoing Public Administration Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi
Only hope for SA now is to remove ANC – EFF
By: News24Wire 31st March 2017 The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has called the Cabinet reshuffle a continuation of a plan to "place Treasury in the hands of an individual whose only qualification is his loyalty to the Gupta family". Economic Freedom Fighters spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said the party rejected the... →

Cope calls for mass Cabinet resignation
By: News24Wire 31st March 2017 The Congress of the People (Cope) has called for a mass resignation by Cabinet in protest against President Jacob Zuma's reshuffle, which saw Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas among those removed. "In our view this was not a genuine and honest Cabinet reshuffle based on... →

Cabinet Reshuffle hands over Treasury to Gupta family – EFF 
By: African News Agency 31st March 2017 The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) on Friday rejected the President Jacob Zuma’s reshuffling of the Cabinet, saying that it is nothing else but a handover of the country’s Treasury to the Gupta family, Zuma’s close friends. “The entire reshuffle was nothing other than a target at the Ministry of... →

Zuma ‘just plunged country into crisis’ – Saftu
By: African News Agency 31st March 2017 The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) on Friday accused President Jacob Zuma of having plunged the country into a crisis after a sweeping Cabinet reshuffle in which he fired the finance minister and his deputy. The new federation urged South Africans to take to the streets in protest. →

President Jacob Zuma
Cosatu, SACP to meet after Cabinet reshuffle
By: African News Agency 31st March 2017 Leaders of two tripartite alliance members – the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) – are scheduled to hold separate meetings after a late night Cabinet reshuffle by President Jacob Zuma. None of the SACP leaders in Zuma’s Cabinet was... →

Sugar industry reduces haulage costs by R38m
By: Robyn Wilkinson 31st March 2017 The South African sugar cane industry should be congratulated on the progress it has made over the past ten years in improving the efficiency of its haulage system in line with the South African National Roads Agency’s Road Traffic Management System (RTMS), says South African Cane Growers’... →
New agroprocessing-, metals-focused Ipap to be released in April
By: Schalk Burger 31st March 2017 A new Industrial Policy Action Plan (Ipap) focused on supporting the agroprocessing and metals industries, including foundries and the casting sector, will be released in April, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) director-general Lionel October says. “We are aiming to strategically support... →

LIONEL OCTOBER The DTI is emphasising the importance of the fourth industrial revolution and modernising and upgrading the metals and casting industries
Eskom board probes allegations of impropriety against acting chief executive
By: African News Agency 30th March 2017 Eskom's board on Thursday said it had initiated a probe into allegations that acting CE Matshela Koko’s stepdaughter’s shareholding in Impulse International – a company which won nine tenders from the power utility worth a billion rand. In a statement Eskom said its “board resolved, in its... →
Eskom to fast-track socioeconomic assessments for five coal stations facing closure 
By: Terence Creamer 30th March 2017 Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown has called on Eskom to urgently complete socioeconomic impact assessments for its coal-fired power stations in Mpumalanga, five of which having been earmarked for decommissioning over the coming five years, owing to flat demand and the introduction of new... →

TPT awarded multipurpose terminal depot licences
By: Natasha Odendaal 28th March 2017 The South African Revenue Service has granted Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) new depot licences for all its multipurpose terminals (MPTs) for the packing and unpacking of containers for all commodities, including agri, mineral and mining bulk products. This enables State-owned TPT to efficiently... →
BLSA calls for cool heads after Gordhan’s mid-roadshow return
By: Natasha Odendaal 28th March 2017 Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) has cautioned on the consequences of the ill-advised, “unexpected and unexplained” request by President Jacob Zuma for Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan to return to South Africa midway through an international investor roadshow to the UK and the US. The... →

President Jacob Zuma and Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan
SAA losses climb to R4.5bn 
By: African News Agency 27th March 2017 The losses of the already cash-strapped South African Airways (SAA) has rapidly increased to R4.5-billion, documents submitted to Parliament’s standing committee on Finance revealed. “This new figure of R4.5-billion is significantly higher than the R3.5-billion revealed ten days ago and the... →
Gordhan flying back to SA tonight – Treasury
By: News24Wire 27th March 2017 Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan will comply with President Jacob Zuma’s order and return to South Africa on Monday evening. That is according to Treasury spokesperson Yolisa Tyantsi, who told Fin24 on Monday that arrangements were being made to fly him back to South Africa later on Monday evening. →

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan
Zuma orders Gordhan home from UK talks with investors
By: African News Agency 27th March 2017 President Jacob Zuma on Monday ordered Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas to abandon talks with foreign investors in the UK and US and return home, prompting the rand to fall amid fears of a Cabinet reshuffle. “President Jacob Zuma has instructed the... →

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and Deputy Mcebisi Jonas
New public procurement legislation to take effect this week
By: Natasha Odendaal 27th March 2017 With the revised legislation governing public procurement processes coming into effect this week, stakeholders are expecting the impact of the radical economic transformation within public procurement processes to become clear in due course. Government repealed and replaced its Preferential... →
DA to ask public protector to investigate Eskom acting CEO’s R1bn deals to stepdaughter 
By: African News Agency 27th March 2017 The Democratic Alliance will ask Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to launch an investigation into Eskom acting CEO Matshela Koko for allegedly awarding tenders worth R1-billion to Impulse International, a company of which his stepdaughter is a director, the party said on Sunday. “Impulse... →

Eskom acting CEO Matshela Koko
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