🇿🇦 The Iran War is Africa’s warning: Build sovereignty or be
The geopolitical tremors reverberating from the Iran conflict carry an uncomfortable lesson for Africa's resource-dependent economies: minerals in the...
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🇿🇦 Reporter's Notebook: The crypto community says digital
**HEADLINE:** South Africa's Big Three Banks Enter Crypto Market — What European Investors Need to Know About Africa's Financial Gatekeepers **ARTICL...
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🇿🇦 BRACE FOR (LOW) IMPACT: Government pushes for ‘flexible’
South Africa's government is moving to relax environmental impact assessment (EIA) requirements that have governed development projects for nearly thr...
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🇿🇦 LONG FIGHT: Sactwu-Sekunjalo clash escalates as court
The escalating legal dispute between Sekunjalo Investment Holdings and Sactwu Investment Group—the investment arm of South Africa's Southern African C...
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🇿🇦 eThekwini pushes back as Macpherson halts EPWP funding over
The eThekwini Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal has become the latest South African local government caught in a web of corruption allegations, with the n...
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🇿🇦 South Africa’s investment drive is rebuilding the economy
South Africa presents a fascinating contradiction for European investors in 2024. While the International Monetary Fund has trimmed its growth forecas...
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🇿🇦 TAPPED OUT: Gauteng’s deepening water crisis sparks Human
Gauteng province, home to Johannesburg and Pretoria and responsible for approximately 35% of South Africa's GDP, is facing a critical infrastructure c...
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🇿🇦 Water sector inefficiencies slowing economic growth, says
South Africa's economic stagnation has become increasingly difficult to ignore, and President Cyril Ramaphosa has now publicly identified two intercon...
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🇿🇦 IMF praises South Africa’s resilience despite growth
The International Monetary Fund's recent assessment of South Africa presents a nuanced portrait of an economy caught between resilience and fragility....
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🇿🇦 Transnet ports prepare for peak citrus export season
South Africa's agricultural export sector is entering a critical inflection point. With citrus volumes surging 22% year-over-year and export revenues ...
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🇿🇦 Diesel heads to R40, petrol edges to record levels
South Africa's fuel markets are entering a critical phase that threatens to ripple across European supply chains and investor portfolios operating on ...
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🇿🇦 South Africa: Shops Keep Food Prices High While Farming
South Africa's retail sector is demonstrating a textbook case of market failure, according to findings from the Competition Commission that reveal a s...
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🇿🇦 SAHRC launches probe into Gauteng water crisis
South Africa's Gauteng province is facing a systemic water crisis that has triggered a formal human rights investigation, signalling a critical turnin...
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🇿🇦 HONOR Teases the upcoming HONOR 600 Lite
The global smartphone market is experiencing a decisive geographical shift, and European investors watching African tech adoption patterns should pay ...
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🇿🇦 eNCA Business | Market update | 15 April 2026
South Africa's equity markets delivered a measured positive performance on Tuesday, 15 April 2026, as investors cautiously embraced emerging signals o...
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🇿🇦 Ithala board resigns amid ongoing crisis
The complete board resignation at Ithala SOC Limited marks a critical inflection point for one of South Africa's most strategically important financia...
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🇿🇦 Eskom: how corruption and crime turned the lights off in
South Africa's electricity utility Eskom has become a cautionary tale of how systemic corruption, criminal networks, and governance failure can crippl...
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🇿🇦 IMF cuts South Africa growth outlook as Middle East war
The International Monetary Fund has revised downward its economic growth projections for South Africa, citing a confluence of domestic structural chal...
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🇿🇦 MUNICIPAL DYSFUNCTION: Burnt, looted and abandoned — how
The Despatch Local Municipality in South Africa's Eastern Cape province has become a cautionary tale of governance failure that carries profound impli...
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🇿🇦 EPWP funding to eThekwini halted over ‘jobs for sex’ and
South Africa's Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP), a cornerstone of the government's employment and infrastructure strategy, has encountered a sig...
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