SA number two steel-maker Highveld Steel & Vanadium introduces a new high grade steel for use in high rise buildings. With Highveld Steel chief executive André de Nysschen.

Iliad Africa reports headline earnings, per share, of 97.4 cents for the twelve months to 31 December 2005 - 27% higher than the previous comparable period.

The property boom is benefiting the auction industry in what looks like one of the strongest cyclical growth periods in recent times. Park Village Auctions property division chief executive Rodney Beck.

Leading unit trust company Stanlib announces with effect 1 February 2005 its Multi-Manager Property Fund - run by Marriott Properties and Standard Bank Properties - is closed to new investment. Stanlib head of investments Malcolm Holmes

Provest Private Clients' Chris Hansen gives the outlook for 2005

Growthpoint Properties announces that it will purchase a portfolio of 48 properties from Tresso Trading 119

Investors in the listed property sector can expect lower, more stable total returns of 13% in 2005 - says First South Securities property analyst Leon Allison

Stellenbosch Bureau for Economic Research (BER) says building industry confidence is at levels last seen in the economic upswing of 1978 to 1981

Interview with Marc Wainer.