The deals, results, leadership and strategy of the companies shaping South Africa.
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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.
Lesaka turned its first full-year profit since it was assembled in 2022, and its biggest division went backwards while it happened.
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.
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 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 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.
Mr Price's pay policy passed under the new binding-vote rules with a third of ordinary shares against it, in a meeting Financial Mail timed at four minutes.
WesBank is financing more Chinese cars than anything else and provisioning against what they do to used prices, and the used-car trade does not agree that the shift is permanent.
Sanlam has regulatory approval to sell its clients transactional banking from early 2027, and the bank behind the counter belongs to somebody else.
The same hundred dollars landed on the iPhone, the Pixel and the Samsung fold this year, and South Africa has not been told what any of it costs in rands.
Anton Rupert gets the committee that decides what the luxury houses make, and Bram Schot keeps governance.
ACSA pays tax, turns a profit and takes no bailouts, and the Auditor-General has still flagged R400.3 million it should not have spent the way it did.