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| 1. Barrick hopes for Gold Fields deal Barrick Gold, the world's largest gold producer, expected to hold talks with Gold Fields about possible co-operation on adjacent mines, a Barrick official said yesterday. [Full Story] |
| 2. DRC is the 'holy grail of copper' BHP Billiton, Anglo American and First Quantum Minerals, spurred by record copper prices, are developing mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) three years after a war that killed almost 4 million people. [Full Story] |
| 3. Major overhaul for dti to boost local growth The department of trade and industry (dti) may be stripped of many of its 21 separate agencies and topped up with more dynamic policy decision makers in key areas to make it more effective in boosting growth, it emerged yesterday. [Full Story] |
| 4. Market takes a knock on weaker prices of precious metals Stocks retreated yesterday as oil, gold and platinum prices fell, but telecommunications stocks were upbeat. "There was a bit of a selloff as guys reacted to a broker's note to dump emerging markets and buy stocks on the Dow Jones. [Full Story] |
| 5. Work permit quotas due out this week The long-awaited details of new quota work permits allowed to foreigners seeking work in South Africa would be gazetted on Friday, home affairs minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said yesterday. [Full Story] |
| 6. Pension funds adjudicator defends disabled The office of the pension funds adjudicator is at it again. This time it is defending the constitutional rights of disabled people, many of whom may have been discriminated against when forced to take early retirement. [Full Story] |
| 7. Why the poor get poorer, and how to change that "Dead assets." That's how deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka describes the assets owned by the poor and marginalised of our economy. [Full Story] |
| 8. Pension death benefits 'need serious review' Dependants of deceased low-income retirement fund members would benefit significantly if there was an upward review of the current tax-free payout they would receive in this year's fiscal budget. [Full Story] |
| 9. Hedging locks in strong prices Many mining companies were now hedging to lock in record high prices, investment bank Barclays Capital said yesterday, as it warned that commodity prices were poised to decline if hedge funds started selling. [Full Story] |
| 10. New Zealand's vehicle import policy backfires New Zealand's policy of allowing imports of second-hand vehicles from Japan is turning the country into a dumping ground for useless cars, an industry group says. [Full Story] |
