Building materials and industrial minerals group Afrimat expects profit to rise by as much as a half in its year to end-February, partially due to the contribution from its Demaneng iron ore mine in the Northern Cape.
South Africa records 5 more COVID-19 deaths, bring the total to 18, with 1,845 confirmed cases; Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams put on special leave for breaching lockdown regulations and the UIF records claims of more than R300m since lockdown began.
Paris — Air France-KLM, one of many leading airlines around the world that has been hit hard by the impact of the coronavirus, reported a sharp drop on Thursday in passenger numbers for March, compared with a year earlier.
The UIF said that out of the R30 billion available for payouts this financial year, R10 billion had been allocated to deal with COVID-19 lockdown cases.
