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President Cyril Ramaphosa told delegates that all G20 members except the US had signed the declaration.

Breaking with G20 custom, world leaders adopt declaration at start of annual summit

President Cyril Ramaphosa told delegates that all G20 members except the US had signed the declaration

G20: President Cyril Ramaphosa will host leaders from 42 countries at the two-day G20 leaders’ summit in
Johannesburg this weekend. Photo: GCIS

G20: All eyes on Ramaphosa

The absence of US President Donald Trump, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin puts the spotlight squarely on President Cyril Ramaphosa and South Africa

Former finance minister, Tito Mboweni. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Business leaders remember Mboweni as self-starter, resolute

He leaves a legacy as a champion of labour rights, fiscal and monetary reform and prudent government spending

The Constitutional Court will rule on whether parliament acted lawfully when it rejected a Section 89 panel report recommending an impeachment inquiry into President Cyril Ramaphosa over the Phala Phala scandal

Why business fell out of love with Ramaphosa

The business community initially welcomed him. But the past five years have disappointed — and the private sector has only recently been given a turn at the economy’s steering…

Business Unity South Africa chief executive Cas Coovadia

Business lobby: Chief executives extend helping hand to SA – not the ANC

During a media briefing, business leaders said their work with government could deliver the growth needed to arrest the economic crisis

Questioning state and corporate motives should be routine

Captains of industry may appear the benevolent saviours of a state in decline, but we ought to question their intentions

Security companies, community policing forums and the police have drawn up contingency plans to stop looting and public violence. (Guillem Sartorio/AFP)

Vax passports: Business takes cues from government

The private sector, labour and government have been thrashing out ways to increase vaccinations and to restart the economy

Mandatory vaccination involves, at a glance, the constitutional rights to bodily integrity, privacy, to protection against unfair discrimination and to freedom of thought, religion, conscience and opinion. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

‘Exciting’ ramp-up for Covid jabs

As more vaccines arrive in the country, South Africa could administer 420 000 doses a day

Unions have previously called for higher earners’ salaries, such as those of ministers, to be cut. But the assessment has shown that increases in remuneration have been the fastest for employees on the lowest salary levels and slower for top earners.

Public wage bill is impeding SA’s growth prospects — Busa

Business Unity South Africa is eager to talk to its social partners at Nedlac about how the spiralling public-sector wage bill can be tamed. And the organisation says these talks…

Stop gap: Martin Kingston of Business for South Africa. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Procrastination hasn’t helped SAA

Taking tough decisions was always a political risk. But now it may be too late for business rescue