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Bitter impact: Tongaat Hulett’s liquidation will have a devastating ripple effect throughout not just KwaZulu-Natal but the entire country too,
filtering right down to the consumer. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Tongaat Hulett collapse looms

Vision, the lead secured lender to the troubled sugar giant, said it was committed to saving the company and jobs despite the business rescue process failing

SAB chief executive Richard Rivett-Carnac said the industry needed strong policy certainty about excise tax. (File photo)

SA Breweries warns that inflated tax threatens jobs, local growth

The industry wants excise tax relief amid declining sales and economic strain

Disruption: Soweto residents protest in front of Maponya Mall against the wave of violence and looting that affected Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal in July last year. Photo: Luca Sola/AFP

Can the private sector help to fix ‘a fragile state’?

Privatisation stands to deepen inequalities. But some experts say collaboration between business and government can work in everyone’s interest

Commuters drive in the city centre of Ouagadougou on January 23, 2022. – Gunfire broke out at several army barracks in Burkina Faso on Sunday, prompting the government to deny that the military had seized control of the notoriously volatile Sahel state. “Since 1 am, gunfire has been heard here in Gounghin coming from the Sangoule Lamizana camp,” a soldier in a district on the western suburbs of the capital Ouagadougou said. (Photo by Olympia DE MAISMONT / AFP)

Coup season in the Sahel raises uncomfortable questions

Beset by political instability, the region is also the canary in the climate change coal mine

PODCAST: South Africa and South Africa with Covid-19, part 2

Join in the second part of our discussion with economist Sifiso Skenjana.

The R28.1 million was for the city to service the stands, whereafter eThekwini would sell the land to private companies that would build houses. (File photo)

‘Terribly scary’: Dysfunctional municipalities are a threat to South Africa’s economy

The country’s local governments are a drag on investment, a strain on the fiscus and pose a critical sovereign risk

(Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Moody’s could hold decision on SA downgrade — for now

The ratings agency is expected to say on Friday whether it will downgrade SA’s credit rating to junk, but it could hold off until the Covid-19 pandemic eases