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After six years in the making, the government has finally gazetted the black empowerment charter for the charthered accountancy profession. Amongst others, the charter aims to play a pivotal role in helping solve the country's critical skills shortage by growing the number of black people in the pro...

A new route has been unveiled for the 2010 Absa Cape Epic, the eight-day race that leads amateur and pro mountain bikers from around the world through roughly 800 kilometres of Western Cape wildnerness and up about 16000 metres of climbing over some of the most magnificent passes in Africa.

To make sure the country can handle the expected massive influx of visitors for the 2010 Fifa World Cup, South Africa's airports have been undergoing major upgrades, and with seven months to go until kick-off, the final touches are being applied.

Carlos Alberto Perreira is back in the country to take charge of the struggling Bafana Bafana, and has announced the squad that will play in two upcoming friendly matches between Japan and Jamaica.

A large number of South African companies across all major sectors are not implementing environmentally friendly business strategies, thereby jeopardising their own long-term sustainability, a new survey finds.

The Grammy award-winning Soweto Gospel Choir, Beninoise singer-songwriter Ang鬩que Kidjo and one of South Africa's greatest music exports, Johnny Clegg, will headline a star-studded line-up for the Final Draw for the 2010 Fifa World Cup South Africa™ in Cape Town on 4 December.

The gold price jumped to a new record high of $1 095.65 on Wednesday after the price continued to capitalise on the news that India had bought 200 tonnes of gold from the International Monetary Fund - the largest central-bank purchase in at least 30 years.

The South African Reserve Bank will not intervene in the foreign exchange market to manage the strength of the rand, says bank deputy-governor Daniel Mminele, adding that a floating exchange rate regime had helped to cushion South Africa from more severe effects of the global crisis.

"When I showed them pictures of the stadiums, you could see they were amazed." SA football great Doctor Khumalo, a 2010 World Cup ambassador, talks about his recent visit to Argentina and Uruguay.

With just over 200 days to go before the 2010 Fifa World Cup kicks off, 2010 Local Organising Committee CEO Danny Jordaan told Parliament that the improvement of infrastructure, the building of 25 new hotels and the introduction of additional buses and airplanes were all on track to ensure the hosti...

South Africa's First National bank started officially operating in Zambia at the end of last month, aiming to take advantage of the friendly investor environment and low political risk in the Southern African country to expand.

Sales of passenger vehicles and light and heavy commercial vehicles continued to decline in October, though sales of medium commercial vehicles jumped by 15% and exports soared by 50% - helped by a recovery in South Africa's export markets.

The JSE has become one of the first stock exchanges worldwide to become a signatory to the United Nations Principles of Responsible Investment, an initiative which aims to help the global financial services industry towards responsible investment.