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Black Business Council accuses top law firms of resisting transformation over Legal Sector Code challenge

A legal battle over South Africa’s Legal Sector Code has reignited debate over transformation, ownership targets and procurement rules in the legal profession

The BBCBE invites you to the inaugural Built Environment Indaba 

It’s a platform for practitioners in the built industry to come together to discuss and provide solutions to the challenges the industry faces

Eskom chief executive Dan Marokane says coal is important for the country to drive industrialisation. (Getty Images)

It’s business vs business in fight over Eskom probe funding

Business Unity South Africa’s chief executive has accused the organisation’s president of throwing the lobby under the bus in a meeting with the president

The Democratic Alliance insists that crucial state-owned enterprises such as Eskom should report to related ministries. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

BLSA on Eskom investigation: ‘We don’t go out of our way to meddle”

BLSA on Eskom investigation: ‘We don’t go out of our way to meddle”

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan.

Gordhan calls out Mantashe’s bizarre accusations, applauds De Ruyter’s efforts at Eskom

‘It is absolutely unfair and uncalled for to use that kind of language for somebody who tried their best to get the utility out of the mess it is in’

Andre De Ruyter. File photo

Enough excuses, Eskom!

Eskom’s blame game falls flat when one looks at the facts and figures behind the utility’s failure

Former Eskom chief executive Andre de Ruyter. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg)

Despite Eskom woes, De Ruyter will not resign of “own accord”

Power utility plans to move to stage three rolling blackouts from Wednesday

Zwelinzima Vavi, the secretary-general of the South African Federation of Trade Unions. (Photo credit should read JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images)

Vavi, NUM add to calls for De Ruyter and company to leave Eskom

Saftu and NUM leaders warn that load-shedding will cause devastating job losses and scupper economic recovery

What empowerment? Minister of Mineral Resources Gwede Mantashe argues transformation of the mining sector has been ineffective. Although the majority of mineworkers (above) are black people, this is not reflected in mine ownership. (Madelene Cronjé)

Once empowered, always empowered: Does the mining charter judgment rule out transformation?

Given the slow pace of change in mining and other sectors, some analysts have raised concerns that the ruling will cause empowerment efforts to unravel

A healthcare worker holds an injection syringe of the phase 3 vaccine trial, developed against the novel coronavirus pandemic by the US Pfizer and German BioNTech company, at the Ankara University Ibni Sina Hospital in Ankara, Turkey on October 27, 2020. (Photo by Dogukan Keskinkilic/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

This is how medical aid schemes will help to fund SA’s vaccines

Medical aid schemes and businesses will help the government with the cost of acquiring enough vaccines for the South African population to achieve herd immunity

This time seems different: A Black Lives Matter mural on a street in Brooklyn, New York, during protests against racism after the killing of George Floyd. (Photo: AFP)

Black Lives Matter: The South African economy’s unfinished business

Tshegofatso Mathe spoke to people in the South African business world about structural racism in our economy, and what must be done to overcome it

‘Contrary to the nature and tone of the current reporting

Everything keeps going wrong for Lamberti

If they don’t stop doing business with the Imperial CEO, companies could face boycotts

Jacob Zuma made a number of statements that seemed veiled allusions to various political developments.
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WATCH LIVE: Cyril Ramaphosa addresses business leaders

The deputy president is in Johannesburg discussing ‘radical economic transformation’.

China’s President Xi Jinping with President Jacob Zuma ahead of the fifth Brics summit.

Brics ratings agency in the works

The Black Business Council says it has plans for ‘impartial’ alternative to Moody’s, S&P and Fitch

‘The Sars commission has deviated from its originally intended purpose,’ says Jacob Zuma in his papers. (Delwyn Verasamy/ M&G)

President Jacob Zuma sends money-laundering bill back to parliament

The proposed Bill would have increased scrutiny of the bank accounts of "prominent individuals", including himself.

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Black business in spat over whether Zuma should finish his term

Some Black Business Council affiliates are miffed about its public show of support for the president.

Davos ‘snub’ angers black business

The Black Business Council says it should have been invited to give input on "South Africa Inc" at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.

Black Business Council secretary Sandile Zungu.

BBC takes issue with ‘unconstitutional’ set-asides

The Black Business Council (BBC) could take the government to the Constitutional Court over a procurement process it believes to be unfair.

Business council dips into labour broking debate

The Black Business Council says regulating rather than banning labour brokers would be a preferable solution to the controversial situation.

Black Business Council says no thanks to state handouts

Black business wants a bigger slice of government spend, though not necessarily at the expense of white business, the Black Business Council says.