EOH shares surge as restructuring takes form. JSE-listed information and communication technology (ICT) service provider EOH’s share price rose by 55.76% on Tuesday as the company reported its financial results for the six months ended January 31....

Fourth Industrial Revolution Centre launched in South Africa. South African Science and Technology Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane on Tuesday highlighted that the country's future development probably depended on how fast it mastered the technologies of the Fou...

Policy and regulatory malaise undermining efforts to address power deficit. Lingering policy uncertainty and regulatory delays are continuing to impede the development of hundreds of small-scale embedded generation (SSEG) projects, which are seen at the quickest and cheapest w...

Council, Minister discuss BBBEE achievements, shortfalls. The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) Advisory Council last week conceded that the generic 25% black ownership target across industries should be inclusive of active participation of the b...

Activists push South Africa pension funds to tally climate costs. Pension funds in South Africa have a legal obligation to account for the financial effects of climate change on their investments, according to two groups lobbying money managers to pay closer attentio...

Global finance chiefs prepared to 'act promptly' on growth. Global finance ministers and central bankers are prepared to “act promptly” to shore up growth in a world economy that faces downside risks including trade tensions, according to a statement issued Sat...

SA must do 'a lot more' work to improve credit ratings – S&P;. It has been two years since Standard & Poor's (S&P;) downgraded South Africa's foreign currency debt to junk status, and the sticking point is its weak economic performance, an official of S&P; Global Ra...

Supportive policy held up as key to unlocking Africa’s auto ambitions. Policy certainty and flexible thinking will play an important role as Africa increasingly looks to the automotive industry to grow its industrialisation footprint, says Thomas Schaefer, chairperson and...

Transnet to meet OEMs this month in bid to reach settlement on ‘unlawful’ locomotive contracts. State-owned logistics group Transnet will, during the course of April and May, seek to secure “just and equitable” negotiations with the four original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) supplying it with 1...

SME sector ‘critical’ to growing South Africa’s economy – Pityana. Business Unity South Africa (Busa) president Sipho Pityana on Thursday said the organisation would convene a Small Business Working Group to obtain the view of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)...