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Bloomberg writes that a scramble to help Edcon Holdings keep afloat suggests that, like Eskom and SA Airways, the retailer might be seen as too big to let fail. Source: Latest News
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Man who shot Limpopo farmworker thinking he was a bushpig sentenced to six years
News24 reports that a man from Pretoria who shot and killed a farmworker whom he thought was a bushpig, was sentenced on Tuesday in the Modimolle Regional Court to six years in prison. Source: Latest News
BMF demands that Ramos be replaced at Absa with a black CEO
ANA reports that the Black Management Forum (BMF) on Tuesday demanded that Absa Bank should replace the outgoing chief executive Maria Ramos with a black executive. Source: Latest News
Football players’ union calls for preferential tax for footballers
BusinessLive reports that the SA Football Players Union (Safpu) wants the government to review tax for footballers as one of the ways of addressing the serious financial challenges players face after they retire. Source: Latest News
Embracing technology is critical for mining companies, says Deloitte’s report
BusinessLive reports that as the global commodity market comes out of a decade-long slump, boards of mining companies face a different world with fresh challenges that threaten how they generate value for all stakeholders and not just shareholders as they did in the past. Source: Latest News
Firefighters who battled blaze at Bank of Lisbon Building honoured
EWN reports that the City of Johannesburg on Monday honoured the firefighters who fought in the deadly Bank of Lisbon Building fire. Source: Latest News
Four trucks torched, two injured in violent Ekurhuleni protest linked to plastics strike
ANA reports that two truckers were injured on Tuesday, and four trucks were torched and six light motor vehicles were damaged, after an attack by what was alleged to be striking plastics industry employees. Source: Latest News
Absa chief executive Maria Ramos to retire at end of February
ANA reports that Absa’s chief executive officer Maria Ramos will retire at the end of February when she turns 60 and becomes eligible to do so, the banking group said on Tuesday. Source: Latest News
Seven Eldorado Park Secondary School teachers still not able to return to work
News24 reports that seven teachers who were barred from going back to Eldorado Park Secondary School by residents have still not been able to return. Source: Latest News
SABC employees paid January salaries following 'bank glitch', communications minister apologises
News24 reports that Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams apologised on Tuesday to SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) workers following a delay in payment of their January salaries. Source: Latest News