South Africa

Eskom plans to meet union leaders on Tuesday to try to resolve issues relating to an unprotected strike, CEO Andre de Ruyter says...

Hang Seng index reverses losses and jumps in afternoon trades...

Logistics and freight group says port volumes grew more than quarter in five months to end-May...

Tight crude supply news continues to bolster the market...

Temperatures in Japan break 150-year-old records...

G7's confirmation of Russian gold ban turns out to be a non-event...

It is difficult to make a case for Eskom to invest in new generation capacity when there are private investors who are willing to so, CEO says...

The deliberately polarised debate is not about human rights at all: it is about politics, state power and control, writes Kristina Bentley...

Report notes the Prudential Authority and FSCA play a pivotal role in ensuring insurers meet their obligations...

Scathing ruling finds 'certificate of need' is unconstitutional and invalid...

Business Day TV talks to PPC CEO Roland van Wijnen...

Market data including bonds and fuel prices...

The latest addition will give the exchange a combined market capitalisation of about R4.5-trillion...

Scathing ruling finds 'certificate of need' is unconstitutional and invalid...

Former Gauteng judge president Bernard Ngoepe, now the tax ombud, asserts SA has a 'solid judiciary'...

But while Numsa and Num say they are not behind the unprotected strike, they say they understand the workers' struggles...

Governor Lesetja Kganyago says the central bank can improve information flows...

The records of Zuma, Ramaphosa and Mantashe are already carved in stone...

The agreement means travellers can buy connecting flights on both airlines using a single reservation...

Shares in the market heavyweight rocket after it announces an open-ended buyback process...

Listing expected in the next two years even though the Swedish company does not need funding...

At the Gauteng conference on Friday, Panyaza Lesufi's predecessor, David Makhura, criticised the ANC as being a 'self-absorbed organisation' that was at war with itself...

Ignore the noise and focus on the long-term trend...

Pursuing a less aggressive inflation-targeting policy might be the first step in avoiding both recession and stagflation....

There have been positive developments by the government, business, labour and communities, as well as Eskom...

Michael Avery and guests discuss the red tape that is strangling the fragile post-pandemic recovery of the country's critical tourism sector...

Radicalised Islamist Zaniar Matapour is accused of killing two people and injuring 21...

The sector may partially compensate for the downturn in manufacturing and mining output and positively affect GDP in the second quarter...

The Prudential Authority's annual report shows total banking sector assets grew 5.61% year on year to R6.82-trillion as at end-March...

Improvement in the quality of Urals crude oil attracts more buyers...

A restructuring is needed because none of the directors is a registered professional civil engineer...

The findings were part of the UNODC's 2022 World Drug Report presented in Ivory Coast...

The planet-friendly truck has a target range of over 1,000km per tank...

The Langeberg facility near Ceres is inherently viable and if rescued will again be profitable...

Rate increases in the US and capital flow reversal could lead to a wave of debt defaults...

Zelensky also asked the G7 for help to export grain from Ukraine and for more sanctions on Russia...

Mudiwa Gavaza speaks to PayJustNow CEO Craig Newborn...

Motorists can expect a petrol price increase of about R2.50 in July...

In March 2021, China's parliament approved an election bill to ensure only 'patriots' could rule Hong Kong...

US official says the default shows how dramatically sanctions are impacting Russia's economy...

Investors are waiting for any moves against Russian oil and gas exports that may come out of a meeting of leaders of the G7 nations in Germany...

G7 leaders relaunched the newly renamed Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment at their annual gathering in southern Germany...

Given how SA fares on the eight measures of 'positive peace' in the global peace index, it may come as a surprise to learn the country has achieved its highest ranking on the index in 14 years. But that's still in the bottom 30% of the 163 cou...

Both Omicron-modified vaccine candidates have safety and tolerability profiles similar to the original vaccine, Pfizer and BioNTech say...

The central bank's inflation outlook has been revised upward to 160% by the end of 2022 from an initial forecast of between 25% and 35%...

Volumes in the group's Zimbabwe business jumped, as did costs, weighing on core profit...

The smallpox vaccine provides 85% protection against infection with monkeypox, but South Africa stopped vaccinating people against smallpox in 1980, so only people of 42 and older who got vaccinated will have that protection...

Lesufi's election improves Ronald Lamola's ambitions of becoming ANC deputy president...