Business
Battle-scarred developing nations look for path out of permacrisis
Developing country policymakers left this week's IMF-World Bank meetings more frustrated than ever that successive external shocks are derailing their efforts to tackle high...
US companies eye Congo mining assets, including Rubaya, says state department...
US companies are showing "significant" interest in Democratic Republic of Congo mining assets, including the rebel-held Rubaya area, a State Department official said, adding...
Platinum sector under pressure as global supply tightens
Sibanye Stillwater has warned that global supplies of platinum group metals (PGMs) are set to tighten over the next decade, with South Africa at...
Sibanye asks for EU concessions as it ramps up Europe’s first...
South Africa's Sibanye Stillwater said on Monday it is seeking concessions from the European Union to shield Europe's first large-scale lithium mining and processing...
JSE censures SA, Eswatini state-owned joint venture over compliance failure
The JSE has publicly censured the Komati Basin Water Authority (KOBWA) and imposed a R500 000 fine after finding that the authority repeatedly failed...
Renewed US-Iran tensions weigh on South African markets ahead of local...
South Africa's rand and government bonds started the week on the back foot ahead of the release of domestic inflation data, as reports that...
‘We export the raw, import the value and fund growth of...
South Africa digs it out of the ground, ships it abroad, and then buys it back at a premium. That is the uncomfortable reality...
Oil drops 9% as Strait of Hormuz reopens
Oil prices settled down by around 9% on Friday after Iran said passage for all commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz was open...
Nedbank revises economic growth downwards, cites Middle East strife
As the economic outlook for South Africa worsens due to the conflict in the Middle East, which has spiked oil prices, banking group Nedbank...
Top Wits professor hammered over ‘shoddy’ BEE research
Top Wits University academic Prof William Gumede has come under fire after research he relied on contradicted his own findings about the impact of...
