Johannesburg Stock Exchange – The Mail & Guardian

/ 3 June 2023

It’s crisis time for out-of-touch JSE

Delistings and barriers to newcomers threaten to make the local bourse more top-heavy, seeing it serve an even narrower section of the economy

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By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 27 January 2023

It’s clear that state-owned entities can’t be turned around by politics

With Eskom and most other entities in states of disrepair, the relevance of the department of public enterprises is questioned

By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 11 January 2023

JSE hands Jooste 20-year ban while Steinhoff criminal investigation continues

Markus Jooste is still challenging JSE fines totalling R15 million for his role in the balance sheet scandal

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By Emsie Ferreira

Business

/ 17 November 2022

Behind Massmart’s JSE exit

Experts say the company’s stock had long lost
its value, rendering its delisting immaterial

By Anathi Madubela

Business

/ 1 September 2022

‘Greenwashing is fraud’: JSE companies mull climate change pandering

The head of the Global Reporting Initiative says the practice deserves strong repudiation because it misleads investors and other stakeholders

By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 29 August 2022

Why US giant Walmart wants all of SA Massmart at R62 a share

Walmart buying the remaining shares of Massmart would give the struggling retailer financial and operational support to help turn it around, the group said

By Anathi Madubela

National

/ 12 August 2022

R36-billion: The economic cost of gender-based violence

A new report delves into the view that the private sector is key to combatting violence against women and recommends that companies should include their efforts in corporate reports

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By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 4 April 2022

JSE to amend requirements to enable actively managed ETF listings

The local bourse has seen an uptick in the listing of exchange-traded funds, which allow investors to combine equity, debt, property and commodity exposure at a fairly low cost

By Sarah Smit

Politics

/ 12 February 2022

Without the ANC, Malema is a ‘destroyer of confidence’ no more

As the ANC’s Youth League leader, Julius Malema spooked investors a decade ago by popularising calls to nationalise the mines

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By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 12 September 2021

Vax passports: Business takes cues from government

The private sector, labour and government have been thrashing out ways to increase vaccinations and to restart the economy

By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 15 August 2021

Telkom’s long game bears fruit

The partly state-owned firm has battled the odds to become the third-biggest mobile operator in SA

By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 5 August 2021

In South Africa, only 5% of chief executives are women

Only 5% of chief executives are women and the gender pay gap is most pronounced in the top JSE-listed companies, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) report released on Thursday. The report, which tracked executive director remuneration trends in 285 companies, found that there were only 81 women executives among the 725 people whose pay was […]

By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 27 June 2021

The JSE will stay relevant, says chief executive Leila Fourie

The local bourse has been criticised for failing to stop a spate of delistings

By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 18 May 2021

Tekkie Town’s Steinhoff fight: ‘We will get our business back’

Bernard Mostert on the ordeal of losing a business he helped build and the fight to get it back

By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 3 April 2021

Why the cash of the future will be digital and decentralised

Technology used in cryptocurrency will overhaul the banking sector and cater for the unbanked

By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 7 August 2020

White men still rule and earn more

Women and black people occupy only a few seats at the JSE table, the latest PwC report has found

By M&G Data Desk and Sarah Smit

Business

/ 10 July 2020

Black Lives Matter: The South African economy’s unfinished business

Tshegofatso Mathe spoke to people in the South African business world about structural racism in our economy, and what must be done to overcome it

By Tshegofatso Mathe

Article

/ 3 March 2020

Coronavirus hammers global growth

South Africa’s mining and manufacturing sectors are predicted to be down for the first quarter of 2020 because of low demand from China

By Tshegofatso Mathe

Analysis

/ 26 February 2020

Use the workplace to stop socially embedded violence

The judicial system alone and appealing to miscreants has not stopped attacks on women

By Seán Mfundza Muller

Article

/ 14 February 2020

The fable of SA’s special economic zones

The country is being pushed to develop more SEZs. But is this a viable strategy, given unemployment and ‘deglobalisation’?

By Pamela Tsolekile de Wet, Lisa Thompson and Patrick Bond

Article

/ 14 February 2020

Net closes on alleged Tongaat fraudsters

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is still deciding whether to prosecute the Tongaat Hulett executives — including its former chief executive — allegedly responsible for the R11-billion fraud which has gutted the sugar and property giant. The 10 former top managers from the company’s South African, Mozambican and Zimbabwean operations were implicated in accounting irregularities, […]

By Paddy Harper