South African authorities are raising concerns over new foot-and-mouth disease cases threatening the country’s livestock and game industries, as cattle farmers continue to reel from one of the worst o...
The US evacuated aircraft from a second UK military base in response to ongoing threats from Iran, a month after its bombers left a different English airbase in the wake of an alleged terror plot. US ...
The Shoprite Group has added fuel rewards in a partnership with Astron Energy, which will see Xtra Savings members earn 25c per litre back on qualifying fuel purchases at its nationwide network. Memb...
Oil extended declines from the lowest close since August after US President Donald Trump said further strikes on Iran wouldn’t be necessary. Brent dropped below $92 a barrel after sliding almost 6% on...
Qantas Airways struck a technology-outsourcing agreement with Accenture that will remove about 850 jobs at the Australian airline and increase its embrace of AI. “Leading organisations around the worl...
South Africa’s third-biggest bank is stepping up its expansion plan as it looks to broaden its footprint on the continent, laying the groundwork for future earnings growth. Absa Group plans to complet...
Vodacom Group’s half-year headline profit jumped 26% as the company battles to keep control of Safaricom Plc, which boosted the wireless carrier’s earnings during the period. Vodacom’s so-called headl...
Republican Representative Thomas Massie has introduced a measure to impeach Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, roughly one week after the unpopular Iran war the Pentagon chief championed fuelled a midter...
Africa’s natural resources and strategic position could make it an important player in changing global supply chains, but the continent needs reliable infrastructure, stronger institutions and better ...
The Labour Court has dismissed an urgent application by the Agricultural, Food and Allied Democratic Workers Union (Afadwu) to halt voluntary severance packages (VSPs) at Premier FMCG’s Tulbagh fruit ...
Qantas announced on Friday that it will be starting the new route as a seasonal service between Sydney and Cape Town International Airport, running between October next year and March 2028, to coincid...
The problem of illegal drug use is growing as synthetic drugs transform traditional markets, making substances easier to manufacture and distribute globally. However, imprisoning people for low-level ...
Despite more than one of every two South African municipalities being in financial distress, according to Ratings Afrika, and service delivery having collapsed in many, half of the government’s interv...
The biggest takeaway is the decline of the ANC. After the 2021 election, the ANC had control of 122 of the 213 municipal councils. After this election, it will now control only 54. A whopping 138 co...
South Africa’s biggest political party will consider whether to end its national coalition with its main rival after suffering its worst electoral performance yet, an argument that’s emerging as a fau...
Political parties and independent candidates who contested the recent local government elections face a R500 penalty for every poster left across Johannesburg after failing to comply with the city’s r...
The 8th Africa’s Business Heroes Summit and Grand Finale takes place in Kigali, Rwanda, on 1–2 December 2026. The 8th ABH Summit & Grand Finale is just around the corner, and we’d love to have you joi...
The Shoprite Group and Investec Bank Limited have agreed in principle to establish an alliance banking partnership to support the continued development and expansion of Shoprite Financial Services, in...
Nvidia Corp Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang admitted he had an affair with a woman identified in a series of reports as a suspected Chinese spy, plunging the chip colossus into a crisis like none...
A fund run by $242 billion global asset-management firm Ninety One Plc plans to invest $1 billion in Asian and African projects over the next three years as it accelerates a push into the regions. The...
House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has backed impeaching US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth, saying he’s a “hard yes” on a measure that may be introduced as soon as this week. “The so-called Se...
Less than a tenth of Road Accident Fund (RAF) payouts goes towards medical care. Yet spending more on early medical treatment could reduce the amount needed for loss-of-income claims and lower the ov...
The Airports Company of South Africa (Acsa), government and the minister of transport caused unfair prejudice to minority empowerment shareholders in Acsa and have been ordered by the High Court in Jo...
An astonishing 46% of ordinary shareholders in Shoprite Holdings voted against the group’s proposal to make a special award – the CEO Executive Share Plan (CEO-ESP) – to CEO Pieter Engelbrecht. The re...
US intelligence officials told the Trump administration that a woman who had become close to Nvidia Corp CEO Jensen Huang was working for a Chinese spy agency, which recruited her to collect informati...
The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has confirmed the official tallies of the 2026 local government election. Despite its overall decline, the ANC was still the most popular party nationall...
Africa is a multi-billion-dollar market for gambling, with a growing number of young people using smartphones to place bets, particularly on football matches. The issue is often framed in terms of ad...
In Cape Town, the rich and the less well-off share something in common: both are struggling to find homes, albeit for very different reasons. An influx of millionaires has intensified competition for ...
Oman, a Middle Eastern sultanate that rarely draws much attention, is scoring billions of dollars in economic growth and emerging as a big regional winner from the Iran war. As conflict continues to r...
Sub-Saharan Africa is set to host five megacities by 2050 and Lagos is likely to be overtaken by Angola’s Luanda as the continent’s biggest metropolis. Predictions in a new World Bank study suggest th...
South Africa was among the original beneficiaries of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa), designated on 2 October 2000. The programme offered qualifying exports preferential access to the U...
The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has made final the provisional withdrawal of trading company Mixirite’s licence. This means the trader remains prohibited from conducting financial servic...
Australia’s oldest department store David Jones, previously owned by SA’s Woolworths, collapsed on Thursday, finally succumbing after almost 200 years as the digital era drove shoppers to cheaper and ...
The African National Congress, South Africa’s biggest political party, appears to have haemorrhaged support in Wednesday’s municipal elections, modelling based on the early results shows. The ANC is o...
The JSE All Share Index (Alsi) surged as much as 5% on Thursday morning, buoyed by higher gold prices and a drop in oil prices. At the same time, Sasol slid 11.26%, hitting R238.25 at 10:05am on Thurs...
South Africa’s debt-to-gross domestic product ratio was revised sharply lower, the National Treasury said, after a regular exercise to update the data showed the economy was 5.3% larger last year than...
Plc said first-half profit climbed 36% after losses at the Ethiopian operation of Kenya’s biggest company by market value narrowed. Group net income rose to 58.2 billion shillings ($447.9 million) in ...
Brent oil pushed lower after tumbling more than 8% in the previous session as investors bet that a Democratic sweep in the US midterm elections could accelerate efforts to end the war in the Middle Ea...
“What about the informal sector?”. asks Old Mutual Consulting actuary and pensions expert Stephen Walker when talking about retirement fund reform. He says it is well known that people in South Africa...
The price of brent crude plunged around 10% over the past 24 hours, following President Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s massive loss in the US midterm elections on Wednesday, which has sparked...
US Vice President JD Vance said voter frustration over the war in Iran and the US-Israel relationship doomed Republicans in the midterm elections, distancing himself from some of President Donald Trum...
South African political parties that have presided over crumbling infrastructure and a collapse in electricity and water provision face a reckoning in Wednesday’s municipal elections. Voting began at ...