Africa's duty-free access to America gets two more years, tucked inside a shutdown bill
The extension runs to the end of 2028 and still needs President Trump's signature, and even with it South African exporters keep paying industry tariffs.
Cashbuild wants 15 new stores next year, but says there is almost nowhere left to put them
Revenue and margin both rose at the building-materials chain, and operating profit fell 15%.
Aspen made 14% more money without growing sales, while Mounjaro helped lift its biggest division
A R28 billion disposal, R4.6 billion of restructuring and writedowns, and a weight-loss injection carrying the biggest division.
Woolworths is shrinking its clothing floors as food increasingly becomes the retailer’s biggest growth engine
Food earns less on each rand and far more in total, so the new chief executive is sending the capital and the floor space its way.
GoPro is merging with an optics company as it pivots towards AI, defence and aerospace
GoPro shareholders get $285 million and keep about a tenth of the business, and the buyer's plan is aimed at AI data centres rather than cameras.
The Roundup — Thursday, 3 September 2026
Volkswagen and Ford want new rules to help locally built cars compete with Chinese imports
Two carmakers spent this week calling for a level playing field against imports, and the thing they want changed is a support programme most South Africans have never heard of.
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DStv looks set to launch a standalone sports package in South Africa
Pages MultiChoice briefly published show five packages replacing the old ladder on 17 September, at the same five prices subscribers already pay.
One of the world’s biggest banks thinks South Africa could escape junk status by 2028
The bank's case rests on three more years of the fiscal discipline that already earned South Africa its first Fitch upgrade in two decades.
Apple has a new CEO for the first time in 15 years as Tim Cook steps aside
John Ternus took over on Tuesday, and a filing that landed the same day set out what Apple is paying both men and what it wants from each of them.
Motus bet on South Africa’s Chinese car boom and sales have grown more than 200%
South Africa's biggest dealership group sold barely more last year and made a fifth more profit, and the reasons are a repaid loan book and a changed brand mix.
Shoprite’s CEO explains why rivals would struggle to build their own Sixty60
Shoprite tried grocery delivery the way everyone else does it, gave up on that in 2019, and built a R25.5 billion business off the floors of its own supermarkets instead.