Gauteng government is preparing to sell all of its residential properties, including the premier's official residence, in a vast portfolio that may include as many as 29,000 properties.

Growthpoint Properties CEO Norbert Sasse has been presented with the inaugural South African Property Owners Association’s (SAPOA) Lifetime Achievement Award.

Willem Serfontein is a Financial Director for Fortress Income Fund Limited.

Djurk Venter is an Independent Non-Executive Director for Fortress Income Fund Limited.

Thomas Wixley is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Fountainhead Property Fund.

Michael Lalor is the Director of strategy and innovation at Ernst & Young's Africa Business Centre. He holds Master's degrees in Political Economy and English African Literature.

The spotlight has fallen on auditors who signed off financial statements of JSE-listed construction companies that paid millions to bribe competitors to submit losing bids for tenders.

Ernst & Young had surveyed 500 leading investors from three countries to see how South Africa fared as an investment destination.

Last year it saw growth skyrocketing, influenced largely by the launch of oil production at its Jubilee oil field in November, sending GDP soaring by nearly 15 percent. But that growth rate is expected to nearly halve to 8.2 percent this year as oil production has averaged 80,000 bpd as opposed to the 250 000bpd that was anticipated for 2013. Either way it’s all growth and the spinoff for the rest of the economy is worth taking notice of

Construction firms would need to focus on customer reach, cost competitiveness, operational agility and stakeholder confidence to succeed in a changed global economy, new research out on Wednesday revealed