Guptas dropped a name, now we’re dropping any mention of our anti-corruption laws, asks David Lewis.
Big banks, energy giants and internet multinationals won’t change their bad behaviour by themselves – they must be forced to play nice.
South Africa is active in many transparency initiatives in the extractive sector, yet it remains conspicuously absent from the EITI.
Far-sighted and apparently hands-off foreign investment is giving new vigour to the platinum sector.
Explosive mining sector has brought investors’ attention to rising costs and risks.
There has been a growing demand for caravan parks, campsites and backpackers’ lodges.
By selfishly pursuing a free trade area at the cost of broader unity it is compromising its neighbours.
Gauteng quarterly review says the province houses 45% of the shopping centres in the country.
Retail and industrial sectors have been driving growth, and the demand for convenience is being satiated.
With a massive infrastructure roll-out at stake, the state can’t afford to be at odds with workers.
Experts have called for an intervention as union tensions shake an already volatile industry.
Energy Minister Dipuo Peters is sticking to her guns on electricity policy.
The JSE proved its resilience this week, with stocks rising to a two-month high on Wednesday, despite concerns about labour unrest.
An influential bank has decided to continue funding new high-carbon energy projects in Europe.
A draft of new legislation is changing the face of South Africa’s short-term insurance sector and could lead to higher costs for consumers.
An idea to harness hydropower from municipal water pipes has led to a legal standoff between Rand Water and a small power company.
Financial services news group Bloomberg has been facing questions about the use of confidential client data by its journalists.
Workers have turned to the union they scorned at the time of the unprotected strike – the National Union Mineworkers.
Corporates in London are once again taking flak over their executive pay policies.
UK bank’s chief executive quits after Moody’s downgrades debt to junk status.
Pearson Overseas Holdings has retained the majority say over the hiring and firing of editors at key financial publications
Unexplained cash problems have dragged a large but unlisted IT firm, African Legend Indigo (AL Indigo), into liquidation.
The Competition Commission and Sasol have been slugging it out over alleged price-fixing in the domestic market.
An organisation in Johannesburg hopes that trading bikes for trees will plant the seeds of entrepreneurship.
Large gold shipment from New York to South Africa has set off rumbles in the business world.
The nine provincial finalists for the 2013 Emerging Tourism Entrepreneur of the Year Awards competition have been announced.
The hostel systems of the past have to be replaced by housing with one individual per room, writes Johann Barnard.
The public enterprises minister has asked Eskom’s board to keep Paul O’Flaherty as its financial director.
There is nervousness in the sector as companies have to ensure they comply with the mining charter’s requirements by next year.
Africa does not have the same coffee export volumes to follow what Latin America did in the 1970s, but the ingredients for success are the same.
Inequality barometer is far lower than officially calculated if grants are taken into account.
The recent lavish Gupta family wedding, estimated to have been a multimillion-rand affair, has focused the spotlight on the controversial clan.