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South Africa’s busiest airport is facing a sudden jet fuel. Here’s what you need to know.
A downstream unit went down at Sasol's Natref refinery, and a rule from 1964 means the missing fuel cannot simply be shipped in instead.
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Growth, inflation, jobs, the Reserve Bank and the forces shaping South Africa’s economy.
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Big South African businesses are learning to make their own power, and that’s becoming a problem for Eskom
A union has rejected the deals that hand municipal electricity to Eskom, days before fourteen municipalities have to sign one, while the mining companies that can generate their own power keep contracting more of it.
Eskom has reportedly cut its diesel bill by 83% as South Africa goes 462 days without load shedding
The emergency turbines that ran nearly 9% of the time last year are running about 1% of the time now, and the coal fleet is the reason.
South Africa’s food inflation just fell to its lowest level since the 2010 Soccer World Cup
Food and drink inflation came in at 0,9% in July, the lowest since the month South Africa hosted the World Cup, and the rand had a good day for reasons decided in Washington.
After nearly a decade, South African citrus just got easier to sell in India, but there’s still one expensive problem
Nearly a decade of technical talks delivered more cold-treatment options, but the 25% to 30% duty that keeps South African fruit uncompetitive is untouched.
South Africa's factories shrank again in June, and the economy may feel it
Manufacturing output fell 1.7% in June, a softer patch than May but still a decline that is likely to drag on second-quarter growth.
Global food prices just hit a three-year high — and your trolley will feel it later
The UN's food-price benchmark climbed again in July as heat, energy costs and grain-export fears lifted wheat, cooking oil and sugar.
A Saudi ports giant is circling Cape Town's troubled harbour
Transnet has opened a 25-year deal to rebuild and run a Cape Town terminal — and one of Saudi Arabia's biggest state-backed operators showed up to take a look.
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A mining windfall has Goldman betting on another SA ratings upgrade
Company tax is pouring in far ahead of budget, and Goldman Sachs thinks Moody's and S&P will reward South Africa with upgrades within a year.
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The rand just lost its 13-year monopoly on Southern Africa's payment system
The Angolan kwanza has become the second settlement currency in the SADC payment system, a move meant to make regional trade cheaper and faster.
The one corner of China's economy that refuses to slow down
As China posts its softest growth in years, a worldwide scramble to build the machinery behind artificial intelligence has quietly become the one thing propping the numbers up.
Data centres could swallow a fifth of America's electricity by 2035
A new BloombergNEF forecast says AI's hunger for power will quadruple data-centre electricity use in a decade, straining grids already struggling to keep up.