JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has warned companies to tighten procedures around announcing results after Reuters reported FirstRand results a day early when they appeared on a publicly available page on the banking group’s website.

Russel Loubser, chief executive of the JSE, told the Reuters Africa Investment Summit that the exchange was investigating trades around the FirstRand (FSRJ.J: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) results but did not expect to find evidence of insider dealing.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Zambia plans its first foreign bond issue to raise $500 million for roads, power and housing before a presidential election this year that President Rupiah Banda told Reuters he was confident of winning.

The economy of Africa’s biggest copper producer is riding the commodity price surge and Banda said at the Reuters Africa Investment Summit that growth could be as high as 7.5 percent this year.

JOHANNESBURG, March 2 (Reuters) – South African investment
firm Brait (BATJ.J: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) will raise up to $864 million in a rights
issue for its latest round of acquisitions, as it jettisons its
private equity model in favour of public capital markets.

By tapping shareholders directly for cash, Brait said it
would be able to raise money more quickly and hold investments
longer than the traditional private equity model allows.

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 10 (Reuters) – A spike in iron ore prices
lifted Kumba Iron Ore’s (KIOJ.J: Quote, Profile, Research) full-year profit, with the
company saying it expected prices to remain firm this year.

Chief executive Chris Griffith said on Thursday 2011 export
prices, which rose on average 92 percent last year, would be
supported by higher demand on the back of an at least 5 percent
rise in crude steel production in China.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela left hospital on Friday after treatment for an acute respiratory infection, officials said.

Mandela, 92, was admitted on Wednesday, prompting fears for the anti-apartheid icon who led South Africa as its first black president and is revered at home and abroad as a symbol of reconciliation and hope.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela is well and can be discharged from hospital after being treated for a respiratory infection, officials said on Friday.

Mandela, 92, was admitted to hospital on Wednesday, prompting fears for the anti-apartheid icon who led South Africa as its first black president and is revered at home and abroad as a symbol of reconciliation and hope.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela is undergoing specialised tests in hospital and there is no reason to panic over his health, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Friday.

Mandela, 92, was admitted to hospital on Wednesday, prompting fears for the anti-apartheid icon who led South Africa as its first black president and is revered at home and abroad as a symbol of reconciliation and hope.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela is undergoing specialized tests in hospital and there is no reason to panic over his health, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Friday.

Mandela, 92, was admitted to hospital on Wednesday, prompting fears for the anti-apartheid icon who led South Africa as its first black president and is revered at home and abroad as a symbol of reconciliation and hope.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela is undergoing specialised tests in hospital and there is no reason to panic over his health, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Friday.

Mandela, 92, was admitted to hospital on Wednesday, prompting fears for the anti-apartheid icon who led South Africa as its first black president and is revered at home and abroad as a symbol of reconciliation and hope.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela is recovering from a collapsed lung and could be released from hospital as early as Friday, a source close to Mandela told Reuters on Thursday.

The 92-year-old anti-apartheid icon was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital on Wednesday for what his foundation described as routine tests.