🇿🇦 South Africa: Local Firms Lead Charge As SA Secures R890
South Africa's sixth Investment Conference delivered headline-grabbing numbers in December 2025, with R890 billion (approximately €47 billion) in pled...
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🇿🇦 Rent hikes reach their limit for commercial property tenants
** South Africa's commercial property sector is entering a critical inflection point. New research from the 2026 Voice of the Commercial Tenant Repor...
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🇿🇦 Medical students say hygiene crisis at Sefako Makgatho
Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University in Garankuwa, South Africa's only institution dedicated exclusively to medical education, is confronting a ...
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🇿🇦 Soweto residents take electricity grievances to Eskom
Johannesburg's Soweto township has become the latest flashpoint in South Africa's deteriorating relationship between citizens and Eskom, the state-own...
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🇿🇦 DEEPENING CRISIS: FoodForward SA calls for decisive action
South Africa faces a stark contradiction that encapsulates one of Africa's most pressing economic challenges: while over 10 million tonnes of food dis...
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🇿🇦 SA’s farm machinery slowdown masks a more resilient
South Africa's agricultural machinery sector is experiencing a counterintuitive slowdown that deserves closer examination by European investors tracki...
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🇿🇦 SA's Economy Shows Growth, but Structural Problems Remain
South Africa's economic narrative has shifted dramatically over the past 18 months. After years of contraction and policy paralysis, official statemen...
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🇿🇦 PIE IN THE SKY: Lamola's exit exposes SAA's shaky
The abrupt resignation of John Lamola as group chief executive of South African Airways (SAA) on a Friday afternoon has exposed the institutional frag...
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🇿🇦 IMF calls for deep spending reforms amidst South Africa's
The International Monetary Fund has issued a stark warning to South African policymakers, calling for comprehensive spending reforms as the nation gra...
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🇿🇦 NEWSFLASH: Steenhuisen launches voluntary foot-and-mouth
South Africa has signalled a significant shift in livestock disease management with the launch of a voluntary foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) control sch...
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🇿🇦 OUR CITY NEWS: By numbers — how Joburg’s essential services
Johannesburg, South Africa's economic engine, faces a critical infrastructure breakdown that threatens both local operations and foreign investment co...
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🇿🇦 Homes are being stolen in plain sight
South Africa's residential property market, long viewed as an attractive entry point for European capital seeking African exposure, faces a systemic a...
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🇿🇦 'Kusile is one of the most reliable stations in Eskom fleet'
South Africa's chronic electricity shortage—which has paralyzed economic growth and deterred foreign investment for nearly a decade—appears to be ente...
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🇿🇦 COST OF LIVING CRUNCH: Food or paraffin? SA’s poorest
South Africa's energy affordability crisis has reached a breaking point. In a single month, paraffin prices more than doubled, forcing millions of the...
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🇿🇦 SAA Group CEO John Lamola resigns
South African Airways (SAA) finds itself at another critical inflection point following the resignation of Group CEO John Lamola, effective end of Oct...
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🇿🇦 South African rand weakens on geopolitical tensions, local
The South African rand weakened against major currencies in early trading this week, extending a pattern of volatility that reflects both domestic eco...
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🇿🇦 INDUSTRIAL RESCUE: Eskom the unlikely winner in jobs-saving
South Africa's chronic electricity crisis has produced an unexpected silver lining: state-owned power utility Eskom has negotiated medium-term power s...
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🇿🇦 Fuel surcharge concerns as industry warns of under-recovery
South Africa's transport and logistics sector is facing a critical juncture as fuel surcharges spiral beyond government-regulated price structures, cr...
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🇿🇦 Abandoned Police Station Exposes South Africa's Governance
The discovery of an illegally occupied and severely deteriorated police station in Carletonville, South Africa, has exposed a systemic governance fail...
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🇿🇦 ENERGY IMPASSE: 12,000 jobs in limbo as ferroalloys-Eskom
** South Africa's ferroalloys sector faces an existential crisis as negotiations between major producers and state-owned utility Eskom have stalled, ...
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