Three financial firms were fined on the same Friday, and one of them had already won an appeal
The Prudential Authority published sanctions against Capitec, Ninety One Assurance and Albaraka Bank for record-keeping failures, and every one of them is administrative.
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Four companies sent the same breach letter last weekend, and one ID checker sits behind all of them
The data at risk is the identity data the law obliges regulated firms to collect, sitting with the supplier they all pay to collect it.
A single line in Oracle's quarterly filing showed Larry Ellison heading for the exit, and by Saturday he was not
Oracle disclosed on Friday that its founder had a plan in place to sell 50 million shares. On Saturday it said the plan was cancelled and nothing had been sold.
Lesaka is finally making money, and the division that brings in most of its revenue is the one shrinking
Lesaka turned its first full-year profit since it was assembled in 2022, and its biggest division went backwards while it happened.
FirstRand now owns a quarter of the lender that decides who can borrow airtime, and its revenue just jumped 58%
Optasia's micro-lending arm grew 84% in six months and now brings in almost three quarters of the group, which has raised what it expects for the full year.
The railway that lost a third of its cargo in five years is about to let competitors onto its tracks
Eleven private operators have signed access agreements with Transnet's track manager, and the first trains that are not Transnet's are due before the year is out.
Remgro sold the last of its FirstRand shares in April, and FirstRand's profit fell five months later
Remgro expects headline earnings between 37% and 47% higher, in a trading statement that landed two days after the bank it finished selling out of reported its first profit fall in six years.
The Roundup — Monday, 14 September 2026
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Dangote Petroleum Refinery opens Africa's biggest ever share sale today, and institutions have already bought in cheaper
Africa's largest share sale opens in Lagos on Monday at a price well above what institutions paid in July, and the JSE wants the secondary listing.
The company bottling Coca-Cola across Africa is set to leave Joburg after a $2.6 billion deal
The Competition Tribunal has cleared Coca-Cola HBC's $2.6 billion purchase of Africa's biggest bottler, with public-interest conditions it has not published.
The man running Anthropic wants AI built more slowly, and he is inviting outsiders in to check
Anthropic's chief executive wants frontier AI labs to slow down, and is offering outside reviewers desks, badges and the right to publish what they find.