3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (146+ words) Wandile Sihlobo and Daneel Rossouw discuss issues facing Western Cape farmers in the 2025/2026 season The Western Cape is one of South Africa’s most important agricultural regions. In the 2025/2026 season, the province experienced a range of challenges, including destructive floods that…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (83+ words) Financial Mail Bringing in an outside operator and capital into Pier 2 at Durban port is a miniature version of what may eventually happen across the state-owned logistics operator For most of the past decade Transnet has had an obvious problem:…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (599+ words) The rural boy who became a business leader and mentor of the young For Dumo Mfini, success has never been about taking the easy route. The Tiger Brands culinary division MD grew up in Bizana, in the deep rural Eastern…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (167+ words) The Post Office has become a byword for dysfunction and irrelevance. After years of bailouts and business rescue, can it still find a reason to exist? It is one of South Africa’s oldest businesses, dating back to 1792, when two Dutchmen…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (136+ words) The extension of the US’s Agoa trade law boosts South Africa’s agricultural exports When it comes to trade, South Africans are desperately keen for any glimmer of good news. Such news arrived this week in the form of our agricultural…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (122+ words) Investors lose patience with clothing giant as bought-back shares halve in value What do you do if you’re a JSE-listed company and your shareholders keep telling you you’re lavishing too much of their money on underperforming executives? If you’re TFG,…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (128+ words) With the informal economy worth an estimated R900bn annually, no wonder Clicks and its new KwaMakhi chain want in The new Clicks venture, KwaMakhi — a small-format retail chain built specifically for township and lower-LSM markets — says as much about where South…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (161+ words) While Oura plans a Nasdaq IPO, disruptions cause the shipping giant’s profits to flounder It’s IPO time for Finland’s finest smart-ring maker, which is planning to list on the Nasdaq in the next month at a valuation expected to be…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (160+ words) US fans are about to meet Malcolm Marx, among other rugby icons, as the sport’s administrators test the US market by staging the fourth Test in an NFL stadium Rugby is trending in South Africa. Obvs. Money is a perennial…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (176+ words) The strategic embrace of Agoa by the US is good news for Africa — but will it want South Africa to be part of the deal, and will tariff benefits remain? Only a year ago, the African Growth & Opportunity Act (Agoa)…...