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Used-car prices holding above 2025 levels; Chinese brands reshaping market value – AutoTrader
Used-car prices holding above 2025 levels; Chinese brands reshaping market value – AutoTrader
Updated 3 hours ago By: Irma Venter

South Africa’s used-car market is showing signs of recalibration, rather than a broad-based price decline, says AutoTrader, with new data from the online platform showing that average prices remained higher year-on-year in each of the first four... 

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IATA calls for action to accelerate the still disappointing global production of SAF
Updated 1 hour 34 minutes ago By: Rebecca Campbell

The global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has lamented the continuing slow development of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF)... 


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IMF MD Georgieva warns world isn’t ready for shocks that are piling up
Updated 6 hours ago By: Bloomberg

International Monetary Fund (IMF) MD Kristalina Georgieva said that after facing crisis upon crisis in recent years, the world needs to build foundations that can withstand shocks that have become... 


Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy president Gary Lane.
Green hydrogen seen as having potential to trigger new green industrialisation
Updated 1 hour 39 minutes ago By: Martin Creamer

Green hydrogen, which is produced with the help of platinum group metals (PGMs), could become the catalyst for new green iron, green steel, green chemicals and beneficiation industries built on... 


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Minerals Council warns of structural challenges in the electricity system
Updated 1 hour 47 minutes ago By: Tasneem Bulbulia

The electricity data for April and May reflect a system that is operationally more stable, yet structurally under strain, industry organisation the Minerals Council South Africa highlights.... 


South Africa's Treasury welcomes Fitch upgrade to BB with stable outlook
Updated 5 hours ago By: Schalk Burger

The National Treasury has welcomed credit rating agency Fitch’s decision to upgrade South Africa’s long-term foreign and local currency credit ratings to ‘BB’ from ‘BB-’ and to maintain its stable... 


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5th June 2026

The standard unemployment rate in South Africa is calculated using only people actively seeking work. A more interesting picture comes from the employment-to-population ratio (aka the labour... 


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Oil prices climb more than $4 after Israeli strikes on Iran, Lebanon
8th June 2026 By: Reuters

Oil prices jumped more than $4 on Monday, with investors spooked by fresh Israeli strikes on Iran as well as renewed attacks on Lebanon a day earlier. Brent crude futures rose $4.42 or 4.47% to... 


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Growthpoint achieves record-low pricing on R1.8bn oversubscribed bond issuance
5th June 2026 By: Sabrina Jardim

JSE-listed real estate investment trust (Reit) Growthpoint Properties has successfully issued R1.8-billion in senior unsecured bonds in a significantly oversubscribed auction. The issue initially... 


Sanral responds to allegations of 'R9.5bn tender storm'
Sanral responds to allegations of 'R9.5bn tender storm'
5th June 2026 By: Sabrina Jardim

The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) has responded to allegations surrounding alleged procurement irregularities and a “R9.5-billion tender storm” at the roads agency. In a... 


Dubai Chamber of Commerce holds trade meetings with South African counterparts
5th June 2026 By: Schalk Burger

The Dubai Chamber of Commerce recently hosted a series of bilateral business meetings between companies from Dubai and South Africa, in Johannesburg, noting that businesses in both markets see... 


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Tongwei solar modules introduced to South Africa
5th June 2026 By: Sabrina Jardim

Solar PV distribution company SOLARWORLD Africa and solar energy solutions provider IBC SOLAR South Africa this week announced a new partnership that will bring China-headquartered solar... 


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Eskom signs agreement with Zululand Energy Terminal as it seeks to advance 3 GW Richards Bay gas-fired power project
5th June 2026 By: Terence Creamer

Eskom has signed heads of agreement with Zululand Energy Terminal (ZET) with the intention of becoming the ‘foundation customer’ for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal that ZET intends... 


Opinion: Reimagining public health service design in the era of National Health Insurance and digital health
Opinion: Reimagining public health service design in the era of National Health Insurance and digital health
5th June 2026

South Africa's health system carries the heavy imprint of history. The apartheid era bequeathed a fragmented, inequitable system in which race determined access to care, geographic distribution of... 


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Shipping’s ‘biggest geek’ charts 65 000 km Africa road trip
5th June 2026 By: Bloomberg

At nearly 40 years old, Lars Jensen’s Volkswagen camper van appeals to him mostly for its lack of modern features. The vehicle he calls “Sally” is just the right rig to drive around Africa over the... 


Armscor welcomes African scientists for advanced analytical chemistry programme
Armscor welcomes African scientists for advanced analytical chemistry programme
5th June 2026 By: Sabrina Jardim

The Armaments Corporation of South Africa (Armscor) is hosting 21 scientists from 16 African countries at its Protechnik Laboratories, in Pretoria, Gauteng, from June 8 to 19 for the yearly... 


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Busa, BLSA call for leadership intervention amid immigration unrest
5th June 2026 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Business organisations Business Unity South Africa (Busa) and Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) have, in a joint statement, noted “with concern” the growing tensions and public debate... 


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Magazine round up | 05 June 2026
Magazine round up | 05 June 2026

A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader.  

LITHIUM EXTRACTION: Chilean mining companies Codelco and SQM are budgeting $3-billion to deploy new extraction technologies at their lithium joint venture in the Atacama Desert. Bloomberg reports that the companies’ Novandino Litio partnership set its latest projection after wrapping up design work on a project to introduce more direct ways to recover lithium from brine under the Atacama salt flat in northern Chile. The venture plans to submit an environmental impact study to regulators in June. Photograph: Bloomberg
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Chilean mining companies Codelco and SQM are budgeting $3-billion to deploy new extraction technologies at their lithium joint venture in the Atacama Desert. Bloomberg reports that the companies’... 

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Deviant financial behaviour must be ruthlessly rooted out

Deeply infuriating is the unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure of a very large number of South Africa’s municipalities. National Treasury’s steps to reform the local... 

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Virtue of necessity

Following an embarrassing false start, the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies has set a deadline of early next year for the finalisation of a new draft of the national AI policy.... 

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Darryn Jacobs, MD of SkyJacks
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This week we profile Darryn Jacobs, MD of SkyJacks, which offers a range of access and lifting equipment and related services  

IN A VICE GRIP: Johannesburg residents and businesses are exposed daily to the spillover effects of municipal mismanagement. Driving is hazardous not only because of the proliferation of potholes, but the lack of road markings, as well as working streetlights and traffic lights. Eskom’s warning that it could interrupt power owing to the City of Johannesburg’s payment delinquency is unlikely to materialise. Nevertheless, the threat itself reinforced just how poorly South Africa’s economic hub is being governed.
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Johannesburg residents and businesses are exposed daily to the spillover effects of municipal mismanagement. Driving is hazardous not only because of the proliferation of potholes, but the lack of... 

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