Rand weaker as ANC confirms Zuma will stay on as president

Analysts say political factors remain an important driving force for the local currency ahead of S&P Global Ratings’s announcement on Friday

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NEC's robust talks on Zuma led to consensus that he stay, says Gwede Mantashe

The party will extend next year's consultative conference by a day

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How Zuma lost it with his critics in ANC executive meeting

South Africa’s Jacob Zuma blamed a western plot and opposition collaborators for the bid by officials in the ruling party to oust him as the nation’s president ...

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Zuma sends vital finance bill back, saying it does not pass constitutional muster

The Financial Intelligence Centre Amendment Bill would introduce closer scrutiny of the financial affairs of the politically exposed

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Scopa unimpressed with Sanral’s R20m audit bill

The roads agency gave MPs its delayed briefing on interventions in its irregular expenditure

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Pravin Gordhan upbeat on SA, says nothing about Zuma

The finance minister says the positive outweigh the hurdles — but refuses to take questions about the ANC NEC meeting

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Zuma survives NEC meeting — now his fate may rest with ANC top six

The move at a dramatic three-day meeting to unseat the president failed and a compromise was proposed

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LIVE BLOG: ANC's announcement on Zuma's future

The ANC will announce the outcome of its national executive  meeting at a media briefing on Tuesday, after Zuma’s departure for Havanna, for the funeral of ...

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DA has advice for ANC’s anti-Zuma camp

Chief whip John Steenhuisen says only 52 need to break ranks in the National Assembly

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Ministers: we will quit if Zuma stays

National executive committee is split over president’s fate

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‘Dismal’ show for SA schools in international maths and science study

Grade 9 and grade 5 pupils were second last in maths, and grade 9s were last in science, trailing African countries like Botswana and Morocco

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Cheaper fuel on the cards for December, says AA

The Automobile Association says petrol is set to drop by around 41c a litre‚ diesel by 38c and illuminating paraffin by 36c

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Deputy mayor accused of throwing microphone and jabbing finger in radio spat

ANC spokesman Gift Ngqondi is fingering Nelson Mandela Bay deputy mayor Mongameli Bobani for allegedly throwing a microphone at him in on-air tiff

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MPs sure SABC chairman’s interdict application will fail

Meanwhile, the new public protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, has already annoyed her ‘boss’ by declining to appear before the ad hoc committee probing the SABC

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VAT is not the way to fill the budget hole in the gaping, Davis reiterates

Judge Dennis Davis also tells MPs that SA cannot fix all its problems with taxes

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Business community focused on the clouds rather than silver linings

South African business community got more pessimistic in the final quarter of 2016 although the reading is still higher than it was in the second quarter

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There is a slew of methods to choose from but none can be consistently relied upon, writes Michel Pireu

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