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Apple developing search engine to compete with Google - report
The report, citing unnamed sources, said signs of the search engine technology have begun to appeal in its iOS 14 operating system.
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Business sector concerned about little being done to improve investor confidence
Although Finance Minister Tito Mboweni listed efforts to restore business confidence in the country the organisations said this was not enough with government failing on the implementation front.
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SA economy in desperate need of private sector investment - economist
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni painted a grim picture saying the country's deficit has more than doubled from 6,4% of GDP in the 2019/2020 financial year to 15,7% this year.
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Nigeria's Okonjo-Iweala proposed as WTO chief, US opposed
The global trade body is thus set to be led by a woman for the first time whichever of the two final candidates succeeds in their bid to follow Roberto Azevedo, who stepped down as WTO director-general in August a year ahead of schedule.
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Inside the 2020 medium-term budget policy statement
Take a look at the key figures announced by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni during his medium-term budget policy statement on 28 October 2020.
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Mboweni: SAA funding the fulfillment of an obligation as SAA’s shareholder
SAA is not the only state-owned enterprise (SOE) that will get funds from the fiscus. Various SOEs will be funded to the tune of more than R20 billion over the next few years.
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Cosatu: Proposed public sector wage freezes not addressing real crisis
Treasury plans to close the country’s consolidated budget deficit, which now stands at 15.7% of GDP, through various measures but at the top of this is its plan to close the tap on public sector wage increases.
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Mboweni relying on public sector wage bill reduction to shrink budget deficit
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni warned that public finances needed to be rehabilitated as efforts went into helping the economy to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown.
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Inside government's R500 bn fiscal relief package
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni delivered his medium-term budget policy statement on 28 October 2020 in which he detailed initiatives by government to provide fiscal relief worth more than R500 billion.
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US senators to grill big tech CEOs on legal immunity
Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook - summoned alongside Sundar Pichai of Google parent Alphabet - said proposed reforms could lead to more harmful and abusive content online, and would limit rather than expand free expression.
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Oil sinks more than 5% on fears over virus-hit demand
Rising inventories in the United States indicate weaker demand in the key crude consuming nation, and therefore tend to push prices lower.
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Mboweni gives SAA R10.5bn to implement business rescue plan
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni made the announcement while delivering his Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement in Parliament.
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Mboweni: We cannot allow SA to move towards a sovereign debt crisis
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has presented the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) against the backdrop of growing national debt and an economy decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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MTBPS: Government to slam brakes on public servant wage hikes
Budget guidelines propose a wage freeze for the next three years, among other options – including a new strategy for public sector pay.
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LIVE BLOG: Not true that R500 billion relief package entirely lost to corruption - Mboweni
All eyes are on Finance Minister Tito Mboweni as he tables his mid-term budget review in Parliament this afternoon.
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READ: Tito Mboweni’s medium-term budget policy statement
The Finance Minister delivered his medium-term budget policy statement in the National Assembly on 28 October 2020.
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Total makes second offshore SA gas find
The find is expected to bring a much-needed boost to South Africa's ailing economy, already in recession before the coronavirus pandemic hit.
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100% tax increase on tobacco products will kill industry - SATTA
The SA Tobacco Transformation Alliance said the industry was bleeding as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, which saw a ban on the sale of all tobacco products for months.
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Tito Mboweni and closing the hippo’s mouth: MTBPS 2020
The Finance Minister delivers an ambitious Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement that will shift government’s priorities, and slash spending.
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WATCH LIVE: Tito Mboweni delivers MTBPS
The Finance Minister is expected to paint a grim picture of the current state of the economy, which was already limping when the COVID-19 lockdown brought it to its knees.
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Ex-Denel exec Mlambo 'didn’t understand' how Gupta company was awarded contract
Mlambo has testified at the state capture commission about the company that other officials raised alarm about when it was awarded a 10-year contract beyond the maximum three years that Denel had set as policy.
