Stories of note Bytes from the digital world South African Airways (SAA) chairperson Dudu Myeni appears to have lied to the companies tribunal in trying to clear her name regarding previous lies she told about the state-owned carrier buying 10 aircraft from Airbus. The Independent Producers Organisation, which represents more than 100 independent television producers in the country, has expressed concern about the broke SABC’s failure to settle invoices in full. In my opinion Matters of debate Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s attack on central bank independence can only be viewed as a political act in the wider context of a sustained attack by corrupt businesspeople and their political cronies on the Treasury, and on SA’s financial regulatory framework. The economy is tanking more quickly than anyone expected. Following the downgrades and the beginning of the recession, some economists now predict that SA will follow the same path as other emerging markets and that we are in fo...

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