The Mercury - 2012-02-23

• A Budget to put SA on the growth path
• HOW YOU’LL BE AFFECTED
• Heavier burden for those already taxed the most
• R140 billion to be spent on keeping us safe
• HIGHLIGHTS
• Plan to tackle scourge of piracy
• Kidnapped couple sold by pirates
• Teen murder charges may be dropped
• Electricit­y price ‘will drive demand for solar’
• Another plot to kill Rwandan general
• OPPOSITION WELCOME OVERSIGHT PROPOSAL Support for city ethics panel
• Auction Alliance to investigat­e claims of kickbacks and fake bidding
• Player calls for air war on poachers
• Injured youngster to get R800 000 from municipali­ty
• Rhino activists issue SA boycott ultimatum
• Rudd’s going ignites crisis in Australia
• At 56cm, he may be shortest man
• Al-assad’s troops massacre 27 as attacks continue
• GPS jammers could unleash havoc
• Scores dead, hundreds hurt as train brakes fail
• Girl’s body found in cruise ship
• Adele’s ‘finger salute’ ruffles a few feathers
• Strauss-kahn walks free again
• Budget blues for US space agency
• We’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden
• Woman unwittingl­y becomes face of US abortion debate
• The Little Tramp
• Lucky number spares rapists a life sentence
• Health Cheque
• INFO BILL SHOULDALSO PROTECTWHI­STLE-BLOWERS
• Bailout Just The Start
• Nature’s litmus test
• A heart attack, but no signs
• Wedding bells for idol Jacques
• You&the zodiac
• Pirates rise from the dead to take the game
• Late Ayew goal sees Marseille defeat Inter
• SA one step away from Olympic Games
• Loftus is ‘home territory’ for Sharks
• The long and short of being Jbe Kruger
• Proteas on cloud nine
• Chetty blasts Dolphins to victory
• Cash from Treasury to cut Gauteng toll costs
• Local borrowing to cut rand risk
• Cracking the trillionai­re club not quite the focus of live act
• EDITOR’S
• Wealthy feel brunt of tax regime changes
• Growth estimate lowered to 2.7%
• Strategy for adaptable economy leans on plans of Manuel and Patel
• now we must make them work
• Social grants bill to hit R122bn
• Better incentives proposed to boost voluntary savings
• Revenue proposals ‘to enhance equity’
• Smokers, drinkers pay to indulge
• Complex corporate financing under microscope due to tax leakage concerns
• Medical tax credits ‘leave most sickly out in cold’
• Greenhouse gas emissions levy in the pipeline
• Cost of wage bill to be pruned
• Opinion divided on specifics
• Pricewater­housecoope­rs
• Greek default and the domino effect
• Collusion continues despite bite of competitio­n watchdog
• Financial muscle puts Imperial on course for more acquisitio­ns
• Inflation ticks up to 6.3%, limiting scope for Reserve Bank to cut rates
• Smaller media to get bigger GCIS slice
• Engen, Shell fork out settlement
• Massmart net profit up despite costs
• Implats commits to meeting union
• Shares shrug good news on deficit, follow Implats down
• Peugeot Citroën, GM in discussion­s over partnershi­p
• Internet ban for Dotcom as court frees the pirate from jail on bail
• Cove draws big offer from Shell
• Mazda seeks ¥233bn injection with loss set to widen

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