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Source: Flickr/GovernmentZA; SA Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana.

Finance

#Budget3.0: GNU's strategic pivot balancing growth with fiscal responsibility

Katja Hamilton 21 May 2025

For the past four years, Streetscapes has been running a self-sufficient laundry at its urban farm in the city centre. The organisation plans to replicate the solar- and rainwater-powered laundromat and showers at the new site to cut operational costs and reduce pressure on municipal infrastructure. Photos: Marecia Damons / GroundUp

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Plan to use properties owned by City of Cape Town for homeless project

Marecia Damons 12 May 2025

Human Rights Law

Meta can be sued in Kenya over posts related to Ethiopia violence, court rules

Hereward Holland 7 Apr 2025

Electric vehicles in Africa: what’s needed to grow the sector

Fuel & Energy

Electric vehicles in Africa: what’s needed to grow the sector

MJ (Thinus) Booysen, Joubert Van Eeden 11 Feb 2025

Source: Pexels.

Markets & Investment

Africa back in favour as investors eye currency stability and demographic opportunity

22 Nov 2024

Electric vehicles in Africa: what’s needed to grow the sector

Logistics & Transport

Electric vehicles in Africa: what’s needed to grow the sector

MJ (Thinus) Booysen and Joubert Van Eeden 8 Nov 2024

Nissan to axe 9,000 jobs, cut production on weak China, US sales

Dealers

Nissan to axe 9,000 jobs, cut production on weak China, US sales

7 Nov 2024

Clouds pass over the pit head at Sibanye Gold's Masimthembe shaft in Westonaria. Source: Reuters/Mike Hutchings

Mining

Froneman considers restructuring and capital raise to slow PGM losses

Nelson Banya and Felix Njini 5 Mar 2024

Image source: Karolina Grabowska from

Competition Law

R113.2m Gauteng Health PPE tender declared invalid

21 Feb 2024

At least 12 fishing companies are taking the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) minister to court over the commercial fishing rights allocation process. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Corporate & Commercial Law

Fishing companies take Creecy to court over quotas

Liezl Human 6 Feb 2024

How electric vehicles are accelerating the end of the oil age

Fuel & Energy

How electric vehicles are accelerating the end of the oil age

6 Dec 2023

A man walks beneath electricity pylons during frequent power outages from South African utility Eskom, caused by its ageing coal-fired plants, in Orlando, Soweto. Source: Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

Energy

IPP projects may miss extended funding deadline

Promit Mukherje 1 Nov 2023

TV

African football fans won't be able to watch the big matches on TV - what went wrong and how to fix it

Chuka Onwumechili 14 Sep 2023

Students fear being evicted again if NSFAS payment issues not resolved

Higher Education

Students fear being evicted again if NSFAS payment issues not resolved

21 Aug 2023

Women of 1956 should inspire us to complete the work they started

FMCG

Women of 1956 should inspire us to complete the work they started

Millicent Maroga, Issued by Heineken South Africa 8 Aug 2023

Source: Reuters.

Pharmaceuticals

GSK Nigeria calls an end to its business, to return cash

4 Aug 2023

Nigeria's Tinubu approves new infrastructure fund to boost competitiveness

Infrastructure & Utilities

Nigeria's Tinubu approves new infrastructure fund to boost competitiveness

Felix Onuah 21 Jul 2023

Nigeria's small businesses feel squeeze after petrol subsidy scrapped

SMEs

Nigeria's small businesses feel squeeze after petrol subsidy scrapped

12 Jun 2023

Image source: Mathias Rosenthal –

Legislation & Regulation

Govt to tighten legislations on procuring locally produced products

10 Mar 2023

Is it time for South Africans to switch the channel from DStv?

Hospitality

Is it time for South Africans to switch the channel from DStv?

Anton Gillis 23 Feb 2023

Zimbabwe allows miners, exporters to keep more forex from exports

Markets & Investment

Zimbabwe allows miners, exporters to keep more forex from exports

Nelson Banya 6 Feb 2023

Pope Francis sits next to Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi as he attends the welcoming ceremony at the Palais de la Nation on the first day of his apostolic journey, in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 31 January 2023. Simone Risoluti/Vatican Media/Handout via Reuters

Environment & Natural Resources

'Hands off Africa,' Pope Francis tells rich world

Philip Pullella and Paul Lorgerie 1 Feb 2023

Markets & Investment

Liz Truss resignation will not steady markets easily

20 Oct 2022

Ditching ESG doesn't make sense, especially in Africa

CSI & Philanthropy

Ditching ESG doesn't make sense, especially in Africa

Bryan Turner 6 Sep 2022

Period poverty campaigners to host menstrual rights march this Women's Month

Health & Social Welfare

Period poverty campaigners to host menstrual rights march this Women's Month

24 Aug 2022

10 vehicles quietly killed off in South Africa in 2022 so far

Dealers

10 vehicles quietly killed off in South Africa in 2022 so far

Ryan Bubear 4 Aug 2022

Western Cape fishers want rights allocation process to be started all over again

Fishing

Western Cape fishers want rights allocation process to be started all over again

Liezl Human 1 Aug 2022

International arrivals on a steady increase

Travel

International arrivals on a steady increase

29 Jul 2022

DRC oil-blocks auction draws warnings of environmental catastrophe

Coal, Oil & Gas

DRC oil-blocks auction draws warnings of environmental catastrophe

Benoit Nyemba and Aaron Ross 29 Jul 2022

South Africa could produce a lot more renewable energy: here's what it needs

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

South Africa could produce a lot more renewable energy: here's what it needs

Hartmut Winkler 13 Jul 2022

Nigeria spent $3bn on petrol subsidies in first five months of 2022 - NNPC

Coal, Oil & Gas

Nigeria spent $3bn on petrol subsidies in first five months of 2022 - NNPC

Camillus Eboh and Chijioke Ohuocha 1 Jul 2022

Image by Mark Wessels: Performers at the Official Opening of the 2022 National Arts Festival

Events

Covid restrictions scrapped as National Arts Festival opens

24 Jun 2022

SA tourism industry reacts to cancellation of Covid-19 regulations

Tourism

SA tourism industry reacts to cancellation of Covid-19 regulations

23 Jun 2022

SA Canegrowers expands support to small-scale growers

Agro-processing

SA Canegrowers expands support to small-scale growers

13 Jun 2022

Ford SA's passenger-car exodus: a look at the sales figures

Commercial & Industrial

Ford SA's passenger-car exodus: a look at the sales figures

Ryan Bubear 6 Apr 2022

6 things you need to know about conference travel in 2022

Travel

6 things you need to know about conference travel in 2022

Bonnie Smith 28 Mar 2022

PCR tests scrapped for people visiting South Africa

Tourism & Travel

PCR tests scrapped for people visiting South Africa

23 Mar 2022

TotalEnergies could lose SA licence if no output plan submitted by September

Coal, Oil & Gas

TotalEnergies could lose SA licence if no output plan submitted by September

Wendell Roelf 3 Mar 2022

Denmark drops travel restrictions for 10 countries in southern Africa

Travel

Denmark drops travel restrictions for 10 countries in southern Africa

Nikolaj Skydsgaard 23 Dec 2021

Tourism sector welcomes SA's removal from UK red list

Tourism & Travel

Tourism sector welcomes SA's removal from UK red list

15 Dec 2021

Travel

UK to remove all countries from Covid travel red list

Kylie MacLellan and Elizabeth Piper 14 Dec 2021

E-tolls decision next year

Transport

E-tolls decision next year

30 Nov 2021

Where is the uproar over corporate capture?

Funding

Where is the uproar over corporate capture?

Justin Rovian Naidoo 19 Nov 2021

SA government taken to court over plan for new coal-fired plant

Energy

SA government taken to court over plan for new coal-fired plant

Alexander Winning 18 Nov 2021

A woman works with a computer at the Technology trade show VivaTech in France, Paris, on 17 June 2021. Xose Bouzas / Hans Lucas
Source: Reuters

4th Industrial Revolution

Can artificial intelligence help close gender gaps at work?

Sonia Elks 18 Nov 2021

SA Canegrowers calls for sugar tax to be scrapped

Agro-processing

SA Canegrowers calls for sugar tax to be scrapped

10 Nov 2021

Source: ©markstout

Economy

MTBPS focus: easing the cost of doing business

8 Nov 2021