Banking group Absa (ASA) has reported a 6 percent decline in diluted headline earnings per share to 602.3 cents for the six months ended June 2012 from 638.5 cents year ago.
Headline earnings declined to R4.332 billion from R4.595 billion and attributable profit was 9 percent lower at R4.189 billion.
The group declared an interim dividend of 315 cents per share.
De Beers is spending R20-billion building an underground mine at its aging open-cast Venetia mine.
Chasing economic growth to tackle unemployment will not solve the country's problems, the SACP said.
A Maties economics professor has attacked recruitment firm Adcorp’s employment statistics.
