The V&A Waterfront earns nearly three times as much per square metre as everything else Growthpoint owns
One Cape Town precinct out of 453 properties, and it charges close to triple the rate of the rest of the portfolio.
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Altron just switched on a national security system for Zambia's government, and has put no price on it
A Johannesburg-listed company built the layer that lets Zambia sign things online, and no value for the contract has been disclosed anywhere.
South Africa's cherry growers just got into China, and their whole crop would barely dent the demand
China buys more cherries than anyone. South Africa grows about a thousandth of the world's exports, and has just been let in.
Takealot has taken its own logo off its delivery boxes for the first time in fifteen years
For Heritage Month the boxes are arriving in twelve languages, with a live website behind every one of them.
A third of Super Group's new car sales in South Africa now come from Chinese and Indian brands
A year ago it was a fifth. The brands changed, the volumes nearly doubled, and the margin got thinner.
South Africa's economy shrank last quarter, and the households everyone worries about were not the problem
Households and the government both spent more between April and June, and the economy still went backwards. The damage came in through the ports.
Dangote's refinery is going public in Africa's biggest ever share sale, and it wants ten million small investors
The offer opens on 14 September at 525 naira a share, and the money is going into doubling the plant.
The Roundup — Wednesday, 9 September 2026
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South Africa’s newest bank is set to ramp up lending after attracting 742,000 customers
Old Mutual's interim results show OM Bank taking in deposits quickly, and the lending that has to pay for it only starting now.
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DStv has built its first dedicated sports package, but Springboks’ games are not included
MultiChoice moves cricket and the Champions League down the price list on 17 September, and leaves Springbok rugby, Formula 1 and the golf majors where they were.
The JSE has scrapped a popular investment index, forcing two major funds to find replacements
The FTSE/JSE Rafi 40 is gone, and the Satrix and Old Mutual funds built on it are measuring themselves against something else.
Discovery Bank has made its first annual profit, seven years after Discovery started building it
The first full-year profit is small. The 70% of new business arriving from strangers is the number the strategy actually rests on.