London's underground Tube network faced modest disruption Friday as drivers walked out in a dispute over the resumption of overnight services shut by the pandemic. Members of the RMT transport trade u...
The Kingdom of Eswatini, the small, landlocked southern African country that shares borders with South Africa and Mozambique, has been in political turmoil since May. The country is Africa’s last abs...
MultiChoice Group is working to launch 4K content and may be ready to showcase it in time for the 2022 soccer World Cup, which kicks off on 21 November next year. That’s the word from the chief operat...
Low inflation and interest rates over an extended period have dampened sharp movements in exchange rates, but as consumer prices rise and interest rates are increased, currency volatility once again b...
South Africa is among nine countries that have been the most devastated by the pandemic, infections-wise. For a year now, Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking has tracked the best and worst places to ...
Our music industry is a tiny shadow of its former self…. dwindling from R200 million a year to about R30 million in just over two decades. South African musicians say the local music industry has gone...
WTI fell below its 100-day moving average for the first time since September. The price plunge is the latest dramatic twist ahead of a key OPEC+ meeting next week. Several countries have halted travel...
Network providers Vodacom, Cell C, Telkom, Liquid, Rain, and MTN have been granted temporary spectrum. The application process will add R200 million to the fiscus. The new round of temporary spectrum ...
An Eastern Cape fuel supplier is cutting all ties with Shell ahead of a controversial seismic survey that will be carried out on behalf of the oil and gas company. Express Petroleum distanced itself f...
With rugby teams scrambling to leave before travel restrictions are imposed and the first event of golf’s new-look DP World Tour under threat. South African sport faced a shutdown on Friday due to the...
The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) has requested leave to appeal a ruling setting aside the re-election of its president, Joseph Mathunjwa. Mathunjwa has been AMCU president ...
Retail chain owner Massmart says all its stores are fully staffed and customers are continuing with their shopping on Black Friday, despite a strike by employees. The group’s stores include Makro, Gam...
Mass cancellations started pouring in as soon as the UK placed SA back on its red list of stricter travel regulations. This followed on the SA government announcing a new variant has been identified i...
The RFP requires bidders to submit their documents to the SABC by no later than noon on 18 January. The SABC has issued a request for proposals (RFP) from suppliers as it prepares to launch an Interne...
The sale of 51% of South African Airways to the Takatso consortium is ‘certainly moving in the right direction,’ Gordhan said. South Africa expects to conclude the sale of a majority stake in its stat...
The sale of 51% of South African Airways to the Takatso consortium is ‘certainly moving in the right direction,’ Gordhan said. South Africa expects to conclude the sale of a majority stake in its stat...
Decisions taken by the council inform the government’s stance on the Covid-19 pandemic, including the level of lockdown restrictions. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will convene the National ...
Government expects to conclude the sale of a majority stake in its state-owned airline to private investors early next year, Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan said. The sale of 51% of South A...
JSE-listed Tsogo Sun Gaming’s half-year results to the end of September, released on Thursday, show that the group has put its loss-making 2020/2021 year behind it as the gaming giant reported a surge...
‘We need to see this as a global issue, pretty much like climate change itself, and that these variants are going to spread,’ Pravin Gordhan said. South Africa’s recovery from its deepest economic con...
Demand for residential rental property in Q3 2021 remained weak, according to TPN Credit Bureau’s Vacancy Survey Q3 2021. CEO, Michelle Dickens, says that this is not a surprise, considering that the...
Weighed down by a bruising antitrust probe, an investment spurt and mounting competition. Meituan reported its biggest loss in three years, weighed down by a bruising antitrust probe, an investment sp...
The rail sector in South Africa has been brought to its knees, despite the country having the best rail infrastructure in Africa. How did this happen? Nolwazi Tusini sat down with three industry lea...
SA's economic recovery being derailed by the identification of a new coronavirus variant. The UK, which accounts for the largest share of overseas tourists to South Africa, has already announced a tem...
Planned relaunch of Virgin Atlantic flights to Cape Town likely to be put on hold. Airline shares tumbled the most since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, after European countries banned flight...
Zimbabwe has introduced a raft of new taxes - including on smartphones and energy drinks. In its national budget released this week, the government announced plans to double its spending. Cellphone se...
Asian stocks suffered their sharpest drop in three months and European stocks sank more than 3% on Friday, as reports of a newly identified and possibly vaccine-resistant coronavirus variant drove inv...
First they came for the Karoo, and people spoke up and told them to frack off. Now Shell wants to come for the oil and gas off our coasts, and appears to be facing a similar wave of opposition. There’...
Growthpoint, South Africa's largest real estate investment trust (REIT), is having to accept lower rentals when renewing tenants' commercial property lease agreements. Growthpoint's office sector vaca...
Oil fell sharply as a new Covid-19 strain raised concerns about the outlook for demand, sending global markets spiraling. Futures in New York tumbled below $74 a barrel and benchmark Brent shed as muc...
Ardagh Group has agreed to buy major African glass bottlemaker Consol for R10.1 billion, the companies said on Friday, marking an expansion into the continent from one of the world’s top packaging com...
The South African rand sank below R16.00 to the dollar for the first time this year on Friday as, with investors unnerved by the discovery of a significant coronavirus variant in the country, governme...
The South African rand sank below R16.00 to the dollar for the first time this year on Friday as, with investors unnerved by the discovery of a significant coronavirus variant in the country, governme...
Stocks, Treasury yields and oil sank Friday while the yen jumped as a new Covid-19 strain discovered in southern Africa sent a wave of caution across global markets. MSCI Inc.’s Asia-Pacific equity ga...
A new variant of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 — called B.1.1.529 — has been identified in South Africa, with officials there saying it’s of concern. Fears a new strain could fuel outbreaks in...
The mid-tier gold producer, has held talks with the government and other officials in the southern African nation ‘to see if they are ready for us to come in,’ said Clive Johnson. B2Gold Corp., the Ca...
With car and homes sales dropping again as the housing market crisis dragged on. China’s economy continued to slow in November with car and homes sales dropping again as the housing market crisis drag...
A sign that employers are having difficulty finding workers as they ramp up hiring. Unfilled jobs surpassed one million in Canada, a sign that employers are having difficulty finding workers as they r...
‘The company agreed to the resolution of certain tax matters relating to prior years,’ Google Ireland wrote. Alphabet’s Google Ireland said it would pay 218 million euros ($245 million) in backdated c...
‘Today would have been a quiet day if not for the news of the variant,’ said Masahiro Ichikawa. Japanese equities led losses in Asia, with the Nikkei 225 Stock Average sliding 3%, and the yen strength...
The Zimbabwean Exemption Permit will lapse at the end of the year and their holders will then need to apply for different kinds of visas to stay or will be deported after a 12-month period. South Afri...
Asian stocks and US equity futures dropped amid the risk-off tone and crude oil retreated. Investors dumped risk assets and flocked to havens Friday as a new variant of the coronavirus made its presen...
The city of Paris cracked down on e-scooter speed on Thursday, saying rented scooters would be capped at 10km/h except on major streets and cycling paths. But David Belliard, deputy mayor in charge of...
Scientists are still trying to determine whether the new variant is more transmissible or more lethal than previous ones. The UK will temporarily ban flights from South Africa and five neighbouring co...
South Africa announced it will end a more than decade-old programme that allowed about 200 000 Zimbabweans to live and work in the country, weeks after a new anti-immigrant party scored spectacular el...
It's that time of the year when shopping paves the way for the festive season - and, as tradition has it, shoppers are searching for the best specials. According to the recent Finder.com's Black Frid...
Since the US-originated shopping event was introduced to SA in 2014, the Black Friday period has expanded from three days (from Black Friday until Cyber Monday) to roughly 27 days, resulting in Black ...
“Timelines for responsible post-closure management of mines, including the ongoing risks associated with tailings dams, have lengthened from decades to centuries, or even millennia,” said Walls. “Thi...
Shoprite Group has launched smaller-format Checkers supermarkets, called Checkers Foods, catering to growing demand from customers for Checkers stores in their neighbourhoods. The first Checkers Foods...