The deals, results, leadership and strategy of the companies shaping South Africa.
A judge found the structure Stor-Age used to buy a rival was really a share sale dressed up to cut tax, in a ruling lawyers say could reshape how mergers are taxed.
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CEO Kenny Fihla wants to build "the J.P. Morgan of Africa," but investors have knocked about 10% off Absa this year.
The iPhone maker says former staff carried its secrets to OpenAI, and that the AI firm's new device is built on them.
Six years after its parent collapsed, the 97-year-old retailer is expanding again on a shrink-to-grow plan.
Kuseni Dlamini is stepping down after 14 years, handing a now debt-free Aspen to banker Ben Kruger.
The telecoms group is setting up an AI institute to train South Africans, though key details are still missing.
Refiant, built by a South African-led team, has released Protea — a family of AI models that can process up to 10 million tokens in a single prompt, dwarfing the memory of most mainstream chatbots.
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First Abu Dhabi Bank, sitting on R6.6 trillion in assets, has won the right to register its name locally and told the court it plans to apply for a South African banking licence.
The Johann Rupert–linked investment company banked about R62bn selling its UK insurance stake, and a family-linked adviser pocketed a R2.3bn performance fee for the year.
A US judge reluctantly approved a $1.5m settlement between Elon Musk and the securities regulator over a late Twitter-stake disclosure that saved him some $150m.
South Africa's freight rail operator has hauled its bulk-commodity volumes back to pre-Covid levels, even as containers stay stuck.
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Pick n Pay plans to hand CEO Sean Summers a fresh batch of shares in August to replace the ones he forfeited when the turnaround slipped, and the way the targets are written, he could still be paid out even if the supermarket business is losing money in 2029.