A South African gold miner made R4.3 billion from mine waste other companies left behind
The tailings retreatment group nearly doubled earnings to R4.25 billion, then used the results stage to ask its rivals to open their dumps to it.
Christian Maidman
Absa has written down more software, five months after calling it a one-time reset
Another R200m of software went to zero in the six months to June, almost three times last year's figure, and most of it again came out of head office.
The Roundup — Thursday, 20 August 2026
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SARS has published a plan to replace how South Africans do VAT returns
The revenue service has put a digital VAT model out for comment, and the road map inside the same paper does not have anyone obliged to move until the 2030s.
South Africa shut down a major oil hunt. Just across the border, Namibia is heating up.
The Norwegian company takes 17.4% of a Chevron-operated licence with a well due to be tested this year, its first position in the country.
TikTok may have much bigger plans for your DMs, including letting users send each other money
References buried in the US iPhone app describe payments between users inside direct messages, running on the same system that already handles TikTok Shop.
Standard Bank is eyeing a stake in a Nigerian payments giant with 50 million users
Bloomberg reports the bank wants into OPay before it lists in New York, with nothing signed and both sides declining to say a word.
Eight organisations are trying to stop a R1bn coal mine in a protected part of South Africa
Uthaka Energy says environmental groups have run review after review to stall its Mpumalanga mine; the groups answer that this is what holding people to the law looks like.
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South Africa is set to change how electricity is priced for the first time since 2008
The first rewrite of South Africa's electricity pricing policy since 2008 goes out for comment on Friday, and it would force itemised bills, a ten-year price forecast and a much bigger free allowance for poor households.
Copper just overtook iron ore as BHP's biggest earner for the first time
The world's largest miner paid its biggest dividend in four years, and put a South African-born chief executive in front of a decade-long copper plan.
Ninety One's clients now own more than 5% of Johann Rupert's Remgro
It is the second crossing notice in three weeks, and a fair measure of what the Sanlam deal did to the asset manager's size.
