Daily news from the Business Bagel desk — the markets, money and company stories shaping South Africa, reported fast and kept clear.
Shein's first results as a listed company knocked its shares, while South Africa's ad watchdog told local media to turn away its satin ads for polyester dresses.
Spar is looking for a new chair, Pick n Pay has named its next chief executive and Woolworths has a new boss, all as Shoprite and Walmart press harder.
Sonnet 5.5 costs exactly what Sonnet 5 did per chunk of text, but Anthropic says it needs far fewer of them to finish the same work.
From 6 October the platinum and gold miner's shares will also trade on A2X, while its JSE and New York listings stay exactly as they are.
Burstone's South African buildings are beating its own forecasts, but its European warehouses and slower spending abroad will leave first-half growth just under its range.
The government says Starlink is welcome if it respects the 30% ownership rule, and the one route around that rule is stuck until the law changes.
Clicks has agreed to lift its stake in the premium beauty chain ARC to 61%, and the competition authorities still get the final say.
The JSE property group will keep half of a R5.4 billion portfolio and run it for fees, a model it already uses in Europe and Australia.
The caller ID company has put its scam data on a free website, starting in India, and South Africa's banking crime figures show the kind of scam it is built for.
OKU Hotels paid R368 million for the Sea Point landmark and wants to bring it back with apartments and its rooftop restaurant, but first the City has to rule on a tower whose original approval, the application says, it could not find.
The 810MW Gagasi project off Richards Bay is preparing to resubmit its environmental report, and as the first application of its kind it still needs everyone's role worked out.
The asset manager has built its stake from about a twentieth of the retailer to just over a tenth since January, buying into a share that has lost nearly 60% since the start of 2025.