WHILE some of the better performing listed property loan-stock companies believe that there is room for a positive rerating, commentators say that this has already taken place and if there is another it will be small.

IDZs set to draw significant investment to SA, says bank.

Cape Town - The portfolio committee on finance's tortuous efforts to finalise the Municipal Finance Management Bill hit another stumbling block on Friday when it heard widely contradictory legal interpretations about the government's ability to place limits on municipal revenue-raising decisions.

GAUTENG local government and development planning MEC Trevor Fowler will deliver his department's R244m budget at the legislature today, allocating R116m for capital expenditure in the 2003-04 financial year.

Efforts by Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin to mobilise the support of SA's African partners in a bid to liberalise world trade may face a major stumbling block, according to a new research paper by the SA Institute of International Affairs. 

The Eastern Cape government would have invested R963 million in the province's two industrial development zones (IDZs) by the end of the 2003/04 fiscal.

AN INVESTMENT in ApexHi Properties in March 2001, when the company converted from a property unit trust (PUT) to a property loan stock (PLS), would have grown more than 70% (income and capital growth). 

Three years after strategy unveiled, only one IDZ is operating

New rail strategy in Eastern Cape to bring heavy haulers on track, and link up with the port and planned industrial zone in East London

ANC MP Carrim says a key issue is the quality of leadership of state organs