Meat importers in a submission to the government are arguing there is no evidence there should still be tariffs on frozen bone-in chicken imports from Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. ...
Tencent Holdings Ltd. told fixed-income investors Monday that its planned bond offering of about $5 billion will help finance AI-related capital expenditures, people familiar with the matter said, as ...
Two US-based academics who reframed the thinking of John Maynard Keynes after the oil crises of the 1970s won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Robert E. Hall of Stanford University and Michael Woodford ...
Beijing police opened a criminal investigation into companies affiliated with Chinese wealth management firm CreditEase over suspected illegal financial activities. Police didn’t specify the exact cha...
Japanese Trade Minister Ryosei Akazawa called for stronger cooperation between oil-producing and consuming countries as well as greater oil stockpiling and infrastructure development in Asia, seeking ...
South Africa’s manufacturing output falls 4.3% year on year in August, as Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic) Minister Parks Tau visited Bell Equipment and Mondi South Africa in KwaZulu-Natal on 9 ...
This weekend’s deadly attacks on Riyadh’s main airport have demonstrated the ability of Yemen’s Houthis to strike at the heart of Saudi power, raising the risk of a dangerous escalation that could dra...
The Saudi-led military coalition fighting the Houthis said it intercepted missiles and drones aimed at the kingdom overnight, including areas that are home to some of Saudi Arabia’s key oil and gas fa...
The JSE Top40 records its lowest weekly close of the year. Buying opportunity or cause for concern? Nick Kuze from Sanlam Private Wealth weighs in, and US earnings season kicks off with the banks. ...
Global central banks are likely to head into 2027 with even tighter monetary-policy settings to keep inflation at bay. A year that began with the prospect of interest rates drifting lower across major...
The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF), which represents many medical schemes, has said households cannot keep absorbing the rising costs of medical scheme increases or moving to lower benefit options ...
The board of the Insurance Sector Education and Training Authority (Inseta) has dismissed CEO Gugu Mkhize with effect from 9 October following an investigation into her conduct. In a statement issued ...
The CEO of Shoprite, Pieter Engelbrecht, received “total earned remuneration” of R117.79 million in the 2026 financial year, an increase of 35% on the prior year’s R87 million. The sharp increase was ...
US President Donald Trump fumed at the Norwegian committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize, saying the fact it didn’t go to him “is just another sign of how Norway and all these others are ripping o...
The 43 private- and public-sector economists taking part in this year’s BMR/Unisa Economist of the Year Competition do not expect a rate hike for the remainder of 2026. These economists make monthly p...
While motorists cannot control the price at the pump, Santam says that there are practical ways to minimise transportation costs without disrupting your daily routine. Here are some tried and tested w...
The formal launch of the Africa Credit Rating Agency (AfCRA) has required considerable institutional commitment. It brings to fruition an effort that has been almost a decade in the making. In 2017, ...
The man stopped by the authorities at a Lagos airport on a Wednesday in mid-August said he’d come to Nigeria to open a restaurant. Drug-enforcement agents had a different story. They’d spent months h...
Porsche AG plans to increase prices of its top-end sportscars by an average of 20%, including the introduction of a new model that will sit above the longtime flagship 911 in the lineup, as it seeks t...
Sandra Ortega, Spain’s richest woman, has spent most of her life in the small northwestern town of Oleiros, a windy place overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. The 58-year-old is so intensely private and li...
In southern Africa, the El Niño – caused by warmer sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean which affect air pressure and wind directions – usually brings below-average summer rainfall and increa...
SA Canegrowers has called on Finance minister Enoch Godongwana to scrap the Health Promotion Levy (HPL), commonly known as the sugar tax, arguing that it is adding to mounting financial pressure on So...
For a sign of just how extraordinary oil shipping costs have become, consider this: It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space. That journey costs...
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed a tycoon sanctioned by the US and UK for alleged corruption to his cabinet. Kudakwashe Tagwirei, a long-time adviser to Mnangagwa, was named minister ...
OpenAI is expecting to reach or exceed $70 billion in annualised revenue by the end of the year, according to people familiar with the matter, driven largely by growth in its enterprise business. The ...
Pillay is recognised for holding states and national leaders accountable and defending international law amid growing pressure on global legal institutions. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi P...
The Department of Home Affairs has withdrawn a September directive allowing asylum seekers to lodge applications following a Constitutional Court ruling that they could not be excluded from the asylum...
The Trump administration accused Microsoft Corp, Adobe and a half-dozen other companies of abusing a US worker visa program and suspended them indefinitely from a longstanding immigration initiative t...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX said it acquired low-band spectrum that will enable it to use its Starlink satellites to become a “major mobile carrier” in the US, sending shares in incumbent cell providers fallin...
President Donald Trump said in a social media post that the US would “not be attacking Iran” before November’s midterm elections, citing what he said were “productive discussions” with the Islamic Rep...
Meta Platforms banned advertisements in the US from ByteDance, the former controlling owner of TikTok, intensifying the competition with the popular social video site. On Thursday, Meta began implemen...
A US trade judge approved class-action status for a legal fight over refunds for President Donald Trump’s global tariffs, siding with importers who contend that the process will make it easier for a w...
African nations are calling for Ukraine to return their citizens who are being held in its prisoner of war camps after they were caught fighting for Russia. Kenya’s government is in talks to have five...
Oil declined after President Donald Trump said the US would not attack Iran “at any time” before November’s midterm elections. Brent fell toward $103 a barrel after surging more than 4% on Thursday, w...
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed a tycoon sanctioned by the US and UK for alleged corruption as the country’s investment minister. Kudakwashe Tagwirei, a long-time adviser to Mnan...
At least one person was rushed to hospital after reportedly being shot near Dr Pixley KaSeme Street at 4pm. GroundUp is aware of at least two other people who were assaulted and injured. Several veh...
Companies that manage prepaid electricity meters in sectional title complexes are coming under pressure from trustees and managing agents to unlawfully increase electricity tariffs so that they can us...
Irregular expenditure by the South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) increased by 100% to R1.094 billion in its financial year to end-March 2026 compared to its previous financial year. Sanral ac...
OUTsurance CEO Marthinus Visser received remuneration totalling R83.4 million for the 2026 financial year, an increase of 57% on the prior year. He received guaranteed pay of R8.1 million and short-te...
The eThekwini Municipality’s initiative to crowd in private capital along the Durban beachfront has reached a critical milestone, with preferred bidder Imvusa (Pty) Ltd securing more than R70 million ...