Children will soon be locked out of both Instagram and Facebook between midnight and 6am
Meta has settled the American states' case over what its apps do to children, and the money comes in three different sizes depending on who is describing it.
369 local businesses were asked what is actually blocking growth, and labour law came out on top
The Cape Chamber asked 369 firms to rate 61 named obstacles to their growth, and the answers split by company size rather than by the usual complaint.
Scooters Pizza is on track to open 20 stores just months after receiving 1,200 franchise enquiries
Scooters Pizza is back to ten sites and wants twenty by the end of November, and the pitch to franchisees is built mostly on the fees it says it is not charging.
Treasury wants to sell South Africa's first green bond before March
The rulebook was published in May, the projects it would fund are still being identified, and the size and timing get decided at October's mid-term budget.
The Roundup — Monday, 31 August 2026
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Anyone betting on South African gold just had their best month in nearly 20 years
The sector's return index rose about 38% in August, turning a year that had been down 20% into a year that is up, with eight of the market's ten best shares coming from mining.
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Europe’s defence spending boom is opening up a massive new market for South Africa
The Midrand manufacturer exports the design and the right to make it, and says NATO countries that had no interest two years ago are now in the market.
Record gold prices just gave Harmony its best year ever. Now it’s putting its money into copper.
Revenue rose 34% to R99.2 billion and the dividend is the largest the miner has ever declared, but the finance director says the better returns are no longer in South African gold.
Beef prices jumped more than 30%, and South Africans moving to chicken helped Rainbow double its profits
Foot-and-mouth disease made red meat dear, feed got cheaper, and the poultry producer finished the year keeping 12.5 cents of every rand it took in.
South Africa’s only nuclear power station is producing no electricity after both of its reactors went offline
Unit 1 tripped just before 1am on Thursday, Unit 2 has been down since April, and the station that normally carries about 5% of the country's power is generating nothing.
The JSE has suspended a listed company after it promised shareholders a dividend and then didn’t pay it
Labat declared 1c a share in June, certified it could afford it, postponed the payment a day before the record date, and has still not named a new one.
Sanlam's headline earnings are falling while its reported earnings rise by a third
One-off gains from selling its asset manager and from a dilution in India lift one profit measure and are stripped straight back out of the other.