But with so many risks beyond their control, the one question is, who would want to take up Cynthia Carroll’s position as Anglo American’s CEO?
Wealth and wellbeing are still dramatically skewed along racial and gender lines in South Africa, according to census data.
Government has stuck to its guns on the "user pays" principle and placed the cost of paying for controversial e-tolls squarely on Gauteng residents.
Increased labour unrest was unlikely to derail the state’s efforts to roll out infrastructure, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has said.
Privatisation is mooted as the utility’s proposed tariff hikes look set to put the squeeze on users. Lynley Donnelly reports.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan tightened his belt, chided the country’s critics and delivered a no-nonsense medium-term budget policy statement.
Spending on current items such as public sector wages put at risk the roll-out of the government’s infrastructure programme, economists have warned.
Statements by Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba at its annual general meeting this week have revealed a national airline beset by trouble.
South African Airways’s new chairperson Vuyisile Kona has a host of tough problems to sort out to get the ailing state-owned airline into the black.
The public may not love the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral), but the auditor general has little bad to say about the company.