🇿🇦 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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🇿🇦 CASE EXPANDS: Insurance broker joins client in dock as
South Africa's funeral insurance industry faces renewed regulatory pressure following the expansion of a high-profile fraud investigation in the Easte...
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🇿🇦 BUSINESS REFLECTION: After the Bell: Many of Joburg’s
South Africa's mining sector—once the engine of the nation's economy and a magnet for foreign capital—has left behind a troubling legacy that few inte...
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🇿🇦 ‘Tick-box democracy’: Joburg’s Integrated Development Plan
Johannesburg's struggle to execute effective urban development planning offers a cautionary case study for European investors considering large-scale ...
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🇿🇦 DRIER STRAITS: Hundreds of jobs at risk as Selby businesses
Selby, a dense industrial suburb southwest of Johannesburg, is facing an acute infrastructure crisis that threatens to destabilize one of South Africa...
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🇿🇦 IMF cuts South Africa’s growth outlook amid mounting
The International Monetary Fund's successive downward revisions to growth forecasts across Africa's largest economies signal a troubling deceleration ...
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🇿🇦 GRIM PROSPECTS: Zama zama operations easier than legal
South Africa's gold mining industry faces a structural crisis that goes far beyond commodity price volatility. According to recent analysis, criminal ...
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🇿🇦 PERSONAL FINANCE : Banked but baffled: Treasury takes aim
South Africa's National Treasury has signalled a strategic pivot toward mass financial inclusion, releasing a draft National Consumer Financial Educat...
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🇿🇦 South Africa’s coalition in peril after ANC passes budget
South Africa's fragile governing coalition has entered critical territory following the African National Congress's unilateral passage of the 2024 bud...
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🇿🇦 South Africa wins record investment pledges, but delivery
** South Africa has achieved a milestone that should signal economic optimism: record-breaking investment pledges from both domestic and internationa...
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🇿🇦 Why emerging market peers have outpaced a collapsing SA
The divergence between South Africa and its global emerging market peers has become impossible to ignore. While nations like Poland, Singapore, and So...
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🇿🇦 SPOTLIGHT: Survival over compliance drives nurses into the
South Africa's public healthcare system faces a critical juncture as mounting evidence reveals that economic desperation—not policy compliance—now dri...
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🇿🇦 Broad-based BEE is not optional, says deputy minister Joel
South Africa's government has reaffirmed its unwavering commitment to broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), signaling that compliance is not a...
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🇿🇦 Higher fuel prices threaten inflation outlook
The South African Reserve Bank's pause on interest rate cuts reveals a widening economic squeeze that European investors betting on rand strength reco...
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🇿🇦 Elon Musk accuses South Africa of telecom “bribery”
Elon Musk's public accusations that South African telecom operators are engaging in "bribery" to block Starlink's market entry have reignited a critic...
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🇿🇦 Nedbank returns to lead as platinum partner for the 2026
South Africa's financial services sector is sending a clear signal about its long-term confidence in the country's economic future. Nedbank's decision...
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