Relief as SAA is able to pay workers their January salaries . Following concerns over whether South African Airways (SAA) would have been able to pay employees' salaries this month, it has now been confirmed that the embattled State-owned airline has the money av...

Mboweni: Investors at Davos most worried about Eskom, fiscal sustainability . Investors' key concerns about South Africa at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland were Eskom and fiscal sustainability, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has said.

Speaking at a press co...

Motion for proceedings to remove Public Protector approved by Speaker . Proceedings in Parliament to remove the Public Protector from office were given the thumbs up on Friday by National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise.

The Speaker received a motion from the Democratic A...

Government struggling to convince banks to loan SAA billions . Government is struggling to borrow R2-billion from reticent banks, with Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan saying members of his ministry are working their “backs off” to ensure the airline sur...

South Africa improves in corruption index but still has serious problems – report . Despite its score advancing a notch in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), from 43 to 44, South Africa still ranks among countries that are deemed to have a serious corruption problem.

The 2019 C...

SA cannot dodge a downgrade this year, says Alexander Forbes . South Africa will not be able to dodge a credit rating downgrade from Moody’s this year, because the changes it has promised to make are difficult, and it’s not even displaying a concerted effort to ac...

‘Significantly enhanced' shareholder scrutiny to be expected, Eskom’s De Ruyter says . Eskom’s new CEO is not overly troubled by the prospect of shareholder intrusion in the State-owned electricity utility, saying that a high level of shareholder scrutiny is to be expected given the curr...

Steely Gordhan to his enemies: I am executing the president's project, leave me alone . Pravin Gordhan, under pressure from detractors and enemies inside and outside government and the African National Congress (ANC), says he is following a mandate given to him by President Cyril Ramaphos...

SOEs take centre stage at ANC NEC meeting, Lekgotla . The African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee (NEC) has revealed that it was presented with detailed reports on the country’s State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) during its meeting last w...

Hawks say sabotage investigation at Eskom's Tutuka station still ongoing . An investigation into potential sabotage at Eskom's Tutuka power station in Mpumalanga is still ongoing, according to the Hawks.

Late last year, South Africa was repeatedly impacted by power cuts, in...