Regulation, the budget, tax and the policy decisions that move South African business.
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The Council for Medical Schemes asked for 2027 increases of 3.8%, and the schemes that announced this week have priced at roughly twice that, much as the approved increases did for 2026.
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.
A World Bank framework puts the resource at 95 gigawatts, and the first project still cannot be commissioned before 2035.
Six projects were named as the first wave of South Africa's national green hydrogen programme, and only the Saldanha Bay aviation fuel plant has taken a final investment decision.
The Senate refused to open debate on the Clarity Act on Tuesday, leaving the crypto industry without the federal rulebook it has spent the election cycle paying for.
The Prudential Authority published sanctions against Capitec, Ninety One Assurance and Albaraka Bank for record-keeping failures, and every one of them is administrative.
Anthropic's chief executive wants frontier AI labs to slow down, and is offering outside reviewers desks, badges and the right to publish what they find.
Three of the four pressures on households with rooftop solar have been withdrawn, and the one Eskom kept is the one nobody has tested in court.
The regulator has gazetted a market inquiry into whether South Africans can afford to be online, four years after the auction that was meant to settle it.
Onderstepoort Biological Products is not allowed to profit on foot-and-mouth doses, and the minister has put allegations about their pricing to its board.
An association whose members include Discovery Health, Momentum and Fedhealth says forcing everyone above the tax threshold to join would cut the cost of cover by between 10% and 30%.
The extension runs to the end of 2028 and still needs President Trump's signature, and even with it South African exporters keep paying industry tariffs.