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Shares in DRDGold rose the most in four weeks in intraday trade on Friday, after the company reported higher earnings despite lower output in the quarter ending March 31.

SA's growing debt burden is escalating into a humanitarian disaster as the cost of servicing our interest bill fast approaches R1bn a day.

Millions of cartons of citrus will in coming weeks make their way to SA's ports as citrus season starts to ramp up. But a serious obstacle stands in the way of getting a record volume of our highquality citrus to overseas markets — underperforming ports.

The government and business expect a huge amount of new, utility scale private sector renewable energy capacity to come online in the next three years as corporate plans come to fruition, helping to keep SA's lights on.

Standard Bank has leveraged on the successes of PayShap with retail clients since being launched in SA just more than a year ago by launching a replica platform for its corporate clients to enable them to conduct instant payments.

Johnson Matthey, the world's largest secondary platinum group metal (PGM) refiner, said that this year the sector is set for its largest supply shortfall in 10 years.

Asked recently why Transnet had taken so long to ink the deal with the Filipino company chosen to run the Durban Container Terminal 2 (DCT2) that it had opened the space for a legal challenge, Transnet's impressive new CEO, Michelle Phillips, replied that this was the first time the group had done such a deal and it needed to make sure it did it right. The timelines for future private...

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Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi has articulated a firm stance on the country's involvement and interest in De Beers, a diamond division caught in the middle of a R700bn potential tieup between its parent, Anglo American, and larger rival Australia's BHP.

Teraco Data Environments, Africa's largest data centre provider, is building a R2bn power plant locally to secure stable, reliable backup energy for its systems that can ill afford Eskom's continued loadshedding.

Prodigious young sporting talent, a devoted parent, professional parachuting… and with everything pointed to 2024's Paris Olympics.

NGO My Vote Counts (MVC) launched an urgent application in the Western Cape High Court on Friday to ensure that limits and thresholds for political party funding are kept in place.

As repeatedly reported over the course of the year, 2023 was a difficult year for Hollywood, oft described as an annus horribilis during which profits plummeted and output flatlined as the industry's big plans for a postCovid comeback were hamstrung by the effects of the writers' and actors' strikes.

Ninetyeight percent of South Africans are now financially included, according to the Financial Sector Conduct Authority's (FSCA) SA retail financial customer behaviour and sentiment report for 2023. But high financial inclusion does not mean the work is done.

"Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories..."

Lenders demand compensation for expected inflation through higher interest rates, and borrowers are willing to pay more when higher prices are expected to erode their real borrowing costs. Interest rates, after inflation, therefore reveal the real rewards for saving and the real cost of issuing debt.

Welcome to the second instalment of this election cycle's Useless Political Party Logo Bashing Bash (UPPLBB). It seems you have to have an acronym to get anywhere in the political landscape, so I figured I'd come up with something catchy of my own. I must admit, I didn't give my brand identity much thought. But then again, neither did many of the "designers" — I use the term hesitantly — whose...

Sam Mudd has taken over as CEO of Bytes Technology after the ousting of former longtime boss Neil Murphy earlier in the year due to a share trading scandal.

Audi SA has launched featurerich Urban Edition derivatives to its Q3 SUV and Q3 Sportback models.

The introduction of T+1 trade settlement in the US, Canada and Mexico is projected for this month. The shift from T+2 was partly prompted by the volatility in stocks during the Covid19 pandemic. The US regulator, the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), is keen to provide a more secure and predictable environment for trade settlement that can cope with future high levels of volatility in US...

In The Shining Girls, Lauren Beukes' extraordinary novel, there are four sentences, pearls of wisdom, that could be used to describe the discombobulating improbability that is sport: "There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random. He is undone by the revelation. He has the sense of losing his footing, as...

SA is celebrating 30 years of democracy and our coming general election is likely to be a world class example of democracy in action.

SibanyeStillwater, one of SA's largest private sector employers, has approached its lenders to temporarily raise its lending covenants after its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (ebitda) in the first quarter plunged by two thirds.

The Gauteng legislature's portfolio committee on community safety has expressed confidence in law enforcement authorities' ability to manage risks to the electoral process.

AngloGold Ashanti on Friday reported an increase in gold production for the first quarter to endMarch, with fullyear production also expected to rise.

Powerfleet has changed its yearend to March 31 from December 31, the company told investors on Friday, following its recent merger with MiX Telematics.

The JSE was firmer on Friday morning, tracking firmer global markets as another soft US jobs report supported investors' hopes for an interest rate cut.

According to the Metals Recycling Association of SA, the scrap metal industry contributes R15bn ($906m) to SA's GDP and employs about 350,000 people. Over 60% of scrap metal revenue is generated from the mining, manufacturing and construction industries.

There was a time when the loadshedding crisis could have been avoided. The government was warned more than two decades ago of the disaster that was to come if it did not make timely investments in new generation capacity. But it didn't listen until it was too late.

President Cyril Ramaphosa led tributes on Friday to retired Constitutional Court justice Yvonne Mokgoro, after her death on Thursday.