RAND RALLY Trump, tariffs and a surging rand: welcome to currency twilight zone 6 min 0 By Chris Cammack
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MUNICIPAL MAYHEM Cradock and Middelburg — water shutdowns over unpaid bills mark ‘10-year anniversary of a huge balls-up’ 6 min 8 By Estelle Ellis
MIDDLE EAST CRISIS UPDATE: 14 FEBRUARY 2024 Biden pushes for six-week ceasefire; markets ignore Israel's faceoff with Moody’s 5 min 1 By Bloomberg
MIDDLE EAST CRISIS UPDATE: 12 FEBRUARY 2024 Netanyahu pledges safe passage for Rafah civilians; Iranian president calls for Israel’s UN expulsion 5 min 6 By Bloomberg
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK SA’s economy ‘almost certainly’ contracted in second quarter, recession may be looming 4 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
MANUFACTURING SECTOR Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index springs back into positive territory 2 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
RULING PARTY CRISIS South Africa risks its own Arab Spring thanks to ANC’s failures, warns Thabo Mbeki 4 min 21 By Queenin Masuabi
FUNDING TRANSACTION Transnet signs $1.5bn five-year loan just in time to probably stave off Moody’s downgrade 4 min 1 By Neesa Moodley
PHANTOM SHARES The Finance Ghost: Transnet isn’t in control of its issues 3 min 0 By The Finance Ghost
BUSINESS MAVERICK Cash squeeze: Moody’s downgrades credit of five South African municipalities 3 min 0 By Mfuneko Toyana
BUSINESS MAVERICK Tshwane sinks deeper into ‘junk’ status after Moody’s downgrades metro’s credit rating by four notches 2 min 1 By Ed Stoddard
BUSINESS MAVERICK Land Bank financial crisis worsens as Auditor-General slams financial losses running into billions 3 min 1 By Ray Mahlaka
BUSINESS MAVERICK Junked: Fitch and Moody’s downgrade South Africa’s credit ratings further 3 min 1 By Ed Stoddard
BUSINESS MAVERICK Moody’s casts doubts on South Africa’s bid to stabilise debt 2 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
BUSINESS MAVERICK Fitch downgrade pours more salt into the gaping wound that is the SA economy 3 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
CORONAVIRUS OP-ED Everything has changed: The world and South Africa’s economy after Covid-19 6 min 0 By Sean Gossel and Thomas Koelble
