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• Absa goeie resultate: Groter kostedoeltreffendheid sowel as stygende inkomste uit bankversekering het meegebring dat Absa in die ses maande tot 30 September sy wesensverdienste per aandeel met 22,8% tot 201,8c verhoog het. Die totale wesensverdienste het met dieselfde persentasie geklim tot R1,3 miljard, terwyl die toeskryfbare inkomste met 21,8% tot R1,298 miljoen gestyg het. Wat aandeelhouding betref, besit Sanlam 24,6% van Absa terwyl Universa - Konsortium oor 'n belang van 23,3% beskik. Universa bestaan op sy beurt uit Remgro en die Mynwerkers-pensioenfonds wat albei 'n belang van 29,4% het, terwyl Sage 21,2% besit.
• NOK groter winsjaar: Die Nywerheidsontwikkelingskorporasie (NOK) het in die boekjaar tot 30 Junie sy bedryfswins met 18% tot R787 miljoen verhoog, vergeleke met die vorige boekjaar. Die maatskappy het ook sy beleggingshulp in die boekjaar tot sowat R7 miljard verhoog, wat sowat 7% van alle kapitaalvorming in die Suid-Afrikaanse ekonomie beloop.
• Iscor ontbondel: Die herstruktueringsprogram van Iscor is pas afgehandel met die ontbondeling van sy mynbou- en staalbelange, wat voortaan as twee afsonderlike maatskappye in die vorm van Iscor Beperk en Kumba Resources bedryf sal word. Die mynboubelange was nog altyd baie meer winsgewend as die staalafdeling. Iscor neem ook die NOK se belang van 50% in Saldanha Staal oor in ruil vir 20 miljoen Iscor aandele en 10 miljoen Kumba-aandele, asook R250 miljoen kontant vir die finasieringsbehoeftes van Saldanha.
• Handel met Duitsland en Swede: Volgens syfers verstrek deur Adjunk-pres. Jacob Zuma het handel tussen Suid-Afrika en Duitsland die afgelope jaar met 20% gegroei, terwyl handel met Swede met 50% toegeneem het sedert September 2000. Intussen bly die VSA die grootste bron van regstreekse buitelandse investering in Suid-Afrika met sowat R21 miljard wat van 1996 tot verlede jaar na Suid-Afrika gevloei het. Brittanje is tweede op die lys met regstreekse investerings van R15,3 miljard in Suid-Afrika, Maleisië derde met R11,7 miljard, gevolg deur Duitsland (R5,7 miljard), Switserland (R3,5 miljard), Japan (R3,2 miljard) en Saoedi-Arabië (R3,0 miljard).
• Franchising in SA: According to the Franchise Association of SA (FASA), franchising contributes R60 billion a year to the economy, with 478 franchisers now operating in the country.
• SA civil engineering moves out: The SA Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors (Safcec) reports that while government spending on infrastructure is nowhere near the levels of a few years ago, continued spending in the minerals and metals industry is having positive effects on the construction civil engineering industry. The engineering industry has experienced corresponding decline in the numbers of employees, which numbered some 385 000 in 1990, but have fallen to 225 000. Meanwhile, it is estimated that between 30% and 40% of Safcec's members' turnover is currently being generated outside South African borders.
• Sasol plans even bigger: It is being reported that Sasol is investigating projects at its plant at Secunda in Mpumalanga with a capital cost similar to the pipeline project to bring natural gasses from Mozambique, which is said to be in the region of R10-billion. This over and above the roughly R27-billion capital programme which is currently underway. Sasol is contributing R40 billion per annum to South Africa's gross domestic product, saving the country some R18 billion in foreign currency yearly. Its research and development expenditure is in the region of R500 billion.
• UN's biggest conference coming to Jo'burg: South Africa is to host 2 - 11 September 2002 the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), said to be the biggest United Nations (UN) convention in the world to date. The main venue will be the Sandton Convention Center, with satellite conferences to be held at several venues in Sandton and the Midrand. The summit will deal with the many-faceted issues of sustainable development.
• Shopping space construction increases: Plans for about 330 000m˛ of new shopping space were approved in the eight months to end-August - equal to three times the floor area of Sandton City, one of SA's biggest shopping complexes. The returns which pension funds and life insurers earn from their shopping centre investments have already declined. Figures from the SA Property Index (Sapix) show that returns on shopping centres fell from 17.6% in 1999 to 10.5% last year. This was the first time in six years that returns from retail property lagged those from offices and factories. The Sapix figures also indicate that vacancies in shopping centres have more than doubled since 1997, from average of 2.4% to 5.3%.
• Not enough Police for crime: It is being reported the rising crime rate over that past five years is matched by a staff shrinkage of 18 000 to 123 000 in the SA Police Service. About 38 000 new appointments are needed to bring crime under control, but the budget make provision for only 6 000.
• IT popular in Western Cape: Information technology is evidently big business in the Western Cape with its 1 000 employees expected to turn over R6bn this year - which may make it the most profitable industry per person in SA.
• Noord-Kaap Sakeweek: Die Noord-Kaapse Kamer van Koophandel en Industrie (Nokki) - in samewerking met Technikon SA en die swart bestuursforum - beplan 'n Sakeweek in April 2002 in Kimberley met die tema Bou vermoë om Noord-Kaap in die toekoms te lanseer. Hooftemas wat bespreek sal word, is o.m. in- en uitvoer, die bemarking van 'n onderneming, uitnemende diens, emosionele intelligensie, die ontwikkeling van klein-, medium- en makro-ondernemings en die gebruik van sakedienssentrums. Vir meer inligting kan me. Annemarie Marais by 053 8311081 geskakel word.
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