The deals, results, leadership and strategy of the companies shaping South Africa.
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As platinum shares slump and most investors head for the exit, BlackRock has raised its stake in miner Northam Platinum to just over 5%, a contrarian bet that the metal is due a comeback.
Samsung Electronics says its quarterly profit leapt roughly 19-fold to about 89.4 trillion won, likely the biggest three-month haul any tech company has ever posted, yet investors still sold.
Hyprop, the JSE-listed landlord behind malls like Canal Walk and Somerset Mall, set out to raise about R500m by selling new shares and closed with roughly R739m after demand ran hot.
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On 1 July 2026, Johann Rupert's Remgro took full control of Mediclinic's Southern African hospitals in an equal-value swap that handed its Swiss arm to shipping giant MSC.
Comcast-owned Sky has agreed to buy ITV's channels and its ITVX streaming service for up to £1.6 billion, betting a British broadcasting champion can stand up to Netflix, Amazon and Disney.
Tencent has sold about $1.5bn of Kuaishou in Hong Kong's biggest block trade this year to fund its AI push, a capital reshuffle that runs straight through the Tencent stake anchoring JSE giants Naspers and Prosus.
From late October, Turkish Airlines lifts both its Joburg and Cape Town routes from seven to ten weekly flights, taking its total South African schedule from 14 to 20.
The miner is selling almost its entire aluminium business to Alcoa for up to R92 billion, and Moody's has responded by putting it on watch for a downgrade.
Agility Robotics is going public at about $2.5 billion, and its CEO is refreshingly honest about how far off a household robot really is.
After more than $20 billion in five years and a 3% profit margin, Microsoft's new Xbox boss says the business 'cannot continue' as it is.
MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita has been named a founding commissioner of the UN's AI for Good Global Commission, joining Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Amazon's Andy Jassy on the 44-member body that meets for the first time in Geneva this week.
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The Chinese brand has taken over the Pretoria plant Nissan ran for nearly 60 years, keeping all 692 workers and pledging hundreds of millions of dollars to build cars locally.