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Saddled with debt equivalent to about 8% of South Africa’s gross domestic product, Eskom isn’t able to produce enough electricity to meet demand.
15th February 2019
The alternative ‘this or that’ is most often the proposed solution when faced with challenges.
16th February 2019
South African fans of US-branded hot, glazed doughnuts with a gulp of coffee are about to see one well-known choice disappear.
15th February 2019
Telkom is now profitable, pays a dividend and has more than halved the workforce from the 22,000 it employed when Sipho Maseko took over.
15th February 2019
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire took advantage of a plunge in bank stocks to pile even further into his bet on financials, while trimming a giant stake in Apple.
15th February 2019
Businesses in South Africa are struggling to operate amid rolling blackouts that affect their operations for as many as five hours at a time.
15th February 2019
Stadio expects to more than triple its enrolments by 2030 and is in talks to set up a medical school joint venture with a government tertiary education institution.
15th February 2019
Want to pay less tax and boost your savings pot at the same time? There’s a financial product called a Retirement Annuity that will help you do this – provided you choose your RA with care.
15th February 2019
MTN’s Uganda business head was deported over what police called a national security matter, the latest in a string of headaches that Africa’s biggest wireless carrier has had around the continent.
15th February 2019
Production of gold by South African mines retreated the most in six years in December as a strike at the nation’s top producer of the metal continued.
14th February 2019
Cyril Ramaphosa said his government will discuss its plans to rescue embattled power utility Eskom with labour unions after the country was hit by five straight days of rolling blackouts.
14th February 2019
Sibanye Gold said consultations over restructuring unprofitable gold-mining operations in South Africa could lead to more than 6,000 jobs losses.
14th February 2019
The spiralling crisis at Eskom – which Ramaposa referred to Thursday as a “hugely damaging reality check” – is fast becoming SA’s defining political issue.
15th February 2019
Cyril Ramaphosa always knew he had a tough job on his hands when it came to cleaning up corruption within the ANC.
14th February 2019
The South African billionaire, Koos Bekker has managed to turn his Franschhoek wine farm, Babylonstoren into a major selfie destination.
14th February 2019
The new leader of Google’s cloud-computing business plans to take on rivals Amazon.com and Microsoft, and race ahead in the market.
14th February 2019
South Africa, home to almost all of the world’s rhinoceroses, said the number of the animals killed by poachers plunged by 25% last year as it stepped up efforts to save the endangered species.
15th February 2019
Fired SARS Commissioner Tom Moyane's 'abominable' bid to force the President's hand and get his job back has been smacked down by the Constitutional Court.
12th February 2019
Beautifully shot and cleverly scripted, Matwetwe is getting rave reviews and has been apportioned more theatre space.
12th February 2019
Meet Charlene Barnes, a woman who has the unenviable task of trying to save the unwanted and abused pets and strays of Witbank, now known as eMalahleni.
11th February 2019
Perhaps the weightiest thing Cyril Ramaphosa said was “We are at a moment in our history where we need to make difficult choices.”
15th February 2019
Download Orson Welles's classic movie Citizen Kane where you'll witness the world's first mass production of fake news by what we now call the Yellow Press.
14th February 2019
The return to load shedding has been like a dumpster tipping muck over South Africa's green shoots of recovery.
13th February 2019
In business terms, Watson approved cash bribes of R6m a month to pay those who helped his Bosasa secure massively inflated State contracts.
12th February 2019
Towards the end of January this year, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that he had signed into law the Political Party Funding Bill.
13th February 2019
What's the difference between sex work and prostitution? More than semantics, argues Chuck Stephens as he picks up on a debate that must be almost as old as the profession itself.
13th February 2019
After giving a blistering testimony before the Mokgoro Commission of Inquiry, Willie Hofmeyr had to address his own actions at the time of the Spy Tapes debacle.
12th February 2019
President Cyril Ramaphosa's plan to unbundle Eskom into three units could bring the utility more in step with global trends.
12th February 2019
Building a successful business requires much planning, often a lifetime of hard work and does not come without risk, yet there are many risks which are often overlooked.
14th February 2019
In an over-crowded B2B market, it is time to cut through the clutter and drive real lead generation results.
11th February 2019
With one of the worst personal savings cultures in the world, South Africans are notoriously poor savers while being heavily overburdened by high debt.
8th February 2019
Wealthport CEO Eugene Maree gives some insight into the forces that will shape the investment landscape in 2019.
5th February 2019