Up to 9,500 liquor businesses in Gauteng could be forced to close if they do not verify the status of their licences with the Gauteng Liquor Board by the end of next month.

Vodafone has announced that it will become one of the first organisations in the world to introduce a mandatory minimum global maternity policy.

Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies has revised the Liquor Act 2003 and proposed the National Liquor Norms and Standards.

Manufacturers of PVC pipes in South Africa have less than six months left to ensure that their products are compliant with the Southern African Bureau of Standards’ (SABS) ruling that all locally manufactured be free of heavy metals by July 2015.