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Municipal dysfunction remains the biggest risk to faster growth. Picture:

Accounting 101: Eastern Cape gets experts in to teach officials

Officials to receive training as province seeks better governance and cleaner audits

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana (pictured) and PIC chair David Masondo are confronted with a divided board. Picture:
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PIC pandemonium unveiled

Executive never told board about regulator’s demand for whistleblower’s report

The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority is responsible for the quality, efficacy and safety of all medicines in the country, including health supplements.  Stock photo.

Fake HIV, pain and weight-loss drugs — Sahpra is fighting back

Regulator warns counterfeit drugs threaten public health as online sales continue to surge

Suspended PIC CEO Patrick Dlamini. Picture:

PIC board suspends CEO

PIC says precautionary suspension relates to allegations of impropriety by a whistleblower

A FlySAfair plane at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg. Picture: BUSINESS DAY

One more green light for FlySafair sale

Competition Commission recommends conditional approval for asset manager’s acquisition of SA’s largest passenger airline, with concerns about stake in airport

Mineral & petroleum resources minister Gwede Mantashe. Picture:

Mantashe wants oil firms to stockpile 21 days of fuel, at their cost

Petroleum resources minister warns the economy will lose R1bn a day if SA runs out of fuel

Bronwyn Corbett, co-founder of Grit Real Estate Income Group Limited.

PIC caught up in GRIT nightmare

Years of missed expectations have caught up with GRIT, whose London-listed shares were suspended after it failed to table its financial statements on time.

One of the biggest beneficiaries of the black economic empowerment has been Patrice Motsepe.

Motsepe and the makings of a BEE poster boy

Critics point to his links with ANC patronage machine; supporters cite him as proof of what transformation can achieve

Trade, industry & competition minister Parks Tau in Pretoria on March 23 2026.

Tau’s plan to rein in unregulated Chinese imports on hold

Directive issued to halt process after World Trade Organisation intervenes

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk speaks via videolink on the day of SpaceX's initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, the US, on June 12 2026. Picture:

ANALYSIS | Elon Musk’s wealth equals 72% of all SA tax collected since 1997

Trillionaire's fortune is three times bigger than the economy of his country of birth

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De Lille kept in the dark as tourism department’s assets go ‘missing’

An asset verification exercise by the department of tourism has revealed a gap between its asset register and the assets in its possession — a state of affairs minister Patricia de Lille has apparently been kept in the dark about

The SA Alcohol Policy Alliance (Saapa) supports Treasury’s proposed beer excise tier system, saying SA cannot keep treating alcohol primarily as a revenue source while communities face escalating harm.

SAB can’t swallow new beer tier plan

South African Breweries warns move could push consumers towards cheaper illicit alcohol

Eskom tried and failed to revise its unbundling strategy and retain ownership and control of the transmission assets, which raked in more than R35bn in core earnings in the 2025 financial year.

Eskom unbundling pushed back

Task team was given three months to deliver unbundling plan for transmission assets

President Cyril Ramaphosa set the ball rolling in 2019 in a bid to break Eskom’s historical monopoly and usher SA into a competitive multimarket electricity system aligned with global best practice. Key to this is the unbundling of Eskom into three distinct units: distribution, generation and transmission. Now Eskom is casting the net into the private sector for consultants to guide a financially sound uncoupling.

Eskom braces for best-case uncoupling

Power utility seeks consultants to assess funding implications and credit considerations ahead of tricky transmission separation

TFG group CEO Anthony Thunström. Picture: SUPPLIED

TFG to cut floorspace, including 100 stores

Retail group TFG plans to close 100 underperforming stores and reduce inventory purchases as it anticipates another subdued year locally.