Matriculants at Eyabantu Senior Secondary School in KwaMaqoma (Fort Beaufort) in the Eastern Cape were hoping to write their exams in new classrooms they have been promised since 2019. But the school...
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana announced on Wednesday that the government will spend just under R290 billion on social grants this financial year. 20 years ago, when Sassa began operating, governme...
There’s a striking moment near the end of Musk, a new documentary by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, when the world’s richest man is asked why he considers it important to develop X into what he ...
Coca-Cola Co took a $5 billion swing at the coffee market and whiffed. The acquisition of Costa Coffee, often referred to as the “Starbucks of the UK,” was former Coke chief executive officer James Qu...
BluEnergy as part of JSE-listed Blu Label Unlimited has started construction on a R360 million solar project at the Springs Fresh Produce Market in Ekurhuleni, with the independent power producer (IPP...
Pick n Pay says it expects its half-year losses to decline by at least 25% following an improvement in the group’s trading profit. At most, it projects losses would narrow by 35%. This is again mostl...
The Department of Health has been ordered to reconsider the companies awarded “one of the largest and most significant tenders of its kind”. Tenofovir, lamivudine and dolutegravir are arguably the thr...
South African Revenue Service (Sars) Commissioner Dr Johnstone Makhubu says more than 100 cases involving people mentioned in commissions of inquiry – including the Madlanga Commission – have already ...
Some of South Africa’s top business leaders believe there is still more room to lobby the private sector for increased investment in continued efforts to grow the country’s anaemic economy – and avert...
Zwakele Mncwango is ActionSA’s mayoral candidate for the eThekwini Metro in the 2026 local government elections and the party’s provincial chairperson in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). Born in Nongoma in northe...
The high cost of paying South Africa’s 1.3 million public servants has been blamed for government’s ballooning spending and the country’s credit-rating downgrades, while crowding out its ability to fu...
Discovery Bank CEO Hylton Kallner has received total remuneration for its 2026 financial year that once again tops that of Group CEO Adrian Gore. Kallner’s total remuneration was R51.3 million for the...
Retail group Clicks grew profits by 2.6% to R3.33 billion in the year ended August 2026, a period marked by intense competition as retailers offered aggressive promotions and discounts to attract cons...
Performance by mining and materials company Afrimat took a massive knock in the first half of the 2027 financial year, with the six months through 31 August proving to be the worst trading conditions ...
Gold fell as a flareup in Middle East hostilities raised inflation risks days before the Federal Reserve meets to decide on the path for interest rates. Bullion slumped as much as 1.2% to below $4 100...
It’s not news that print media has been decimated by online publishing, but the scale of print’s face-plant is what is surprising. With that have come shrinking newsrooms and justifiable concerns abou...
Chery Group will manufacture the new Omoda C4 at its Rosslyn plant in Gauteng, making it the Chinese automotive group’s first model to be built in SA as it prepares to expand local production and deve...
South Africa’s biggest development-finance institution reached an initial agreement with ArcelorMittal SA to take over the steel giant’s South African unit in a deal worth about R10 billion, people fa...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged US President Donald Trump to reconsider his decision not to invite South Africa to the Group of 20 in Miami in December. “Africa belongs at the table,” Merz said...
South Africa lifted its borrowing requirement in the current fiscal year by R54.2 billion, mainly to finance a domestic bond buyback program designed to smooth out redemptions. The National Treasury e...
JSE-listed private education provider Advtech has acquired a 25% stake in education technology company MathU, securing a seat on its board and exclusive rights to current and future AI-enhanced educat...
The proposed R980 million Durban Amusement Park has secured project development funding approval from a development finance institution, moving eThekwini Municipality’s planned beachfront attraction c...
Quick-service and casual dining franchisor Famous Brands Limited delivered a 108% surge in free cash flow to R459 million for the six months ended 31 August 2026. This enabled the group to raise its ...
South Africa’s annual inflation rate rose less than expected in September, even after energy prices soared because of supply constraints caused by conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. Consumer pr...
A fatal shark attack on Tuesday off the coast of South Africa’s KuGompo (formerly East London), the southern coast city’s first in almost three decades, resulted in authorities closing two beaches. “A...
A fatal shark attack on Tuesday off the coast of South Africa’s KuGompo, the southern coast city’s first in almost three decades, resulted in authorities closing two beaches. “A shark attack occurred ...
South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana is poised to unveil a fiscal anchor to entrench progress made in repairing the nation’s public finances as the Iran war puts those gains to the test. In...
Oil edged higher as attacks on ships around the Strait of Hormuz threatened shipments, while US industry data pointed to another drop in stockpiles. Brent rose above $110 a barrel as Iran’s state-run ...
For years, retailers have spent fortunes on digital advertising, paying for clicks, views, and impressions without any guarantee of a sale. Now a Cape Town fintech is promising to turn that model on ...
Businesses invested heavily in solar power systems during the worst of load shedding to keep operating despite electricity shortages. These systems can still be of great value by delivering substantia...
The first step towards restoring the rule of law to Knoflokskraal has been achieved. Knoflokskraal is the name given to about 2 000 hectares of state-owned land near Grabouw in the Western Cape that h...
The first step towards restoring the rule of law to Knoflokskraal has been achieved. Knoflokskraal is the name given to about 2 000 hectares of state-owned land near Grabouw in the Western Cape that h...
South Africa’s telecommunications regulator is in the crosshairs of Cell C over the auctioning of new radio frequency spectrum to mobile operators for the first time in 17 years. Cell C has instituted...
There may be hopes and calls for government to reintroduce fuel price relief by reducing levies for a few months amid record diesel and petrol prices, but this may be problematic and send the wrong me...
A majority of private-capital firms in southern Africa expect business to be brisk next year and beyond as higher fundraising and more money from exits free up capital for new deals, a survey has show...
Roha Group, founded by American-born Brooks Washington, started out in Africa with a beer bottle factory in Ethiopia. It has since launched a pan-African data centre business and an equipment financi...
Redefine Properties has invested R106 million in a 7.014 MWp rooftop solar facility in Cape Town, using the City of Cape Town’s municipal electricity grid to supply renewable energy to three propertie...
JPMorgan Chase & Co deposited 50 billion naira ($38 million) with the Central Bank of Nigeria as it moves closer to securing a banking license in Africa’s most populous nation, according to people fam...
State-owned rail utility Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) has set a global freight rail record after successfully running a 696-wagon empty train along the Iron Ore Export Line from Saldanha to the Norther...
The hackers who recently infiltrated some of Japan’s biggest companies used an AI tool developed in China and linked to a rash of breaches at South Korean banks last month, according to a Tokyo-based ...
Ebola cases have stopped declining in Democratic Republic of Congo, with worsening transmission in North Kivu province eroding gains in the outbreak’s original epicentre. Weekly totals of confirmed in...
Brent oil fluctuated near a five-month high as traders weighed the risk of further Iranian attacks in the Strait of Hormuz against robust crude flows from the Persian Gulf. The global benchmark was ju...