ANALYSIS Silence on Eskom and other SOEs highlights politically difficult MTBPS – and other trade-offs 5 min 1 By Marianne Merten
MTBPS Mini budget - Godongwana goes against ‘tough love’ approach to SOEs by giving them more taxpayer bailouts 3 min 1 By Ray Mahlaka
OFF THE RAILS ANALYSIS Over 10km of railway cabling stolen in recent strike, as top Transnet official defends network failures 3 min 9 By Ray Mahlaka
MTBPS PREVIEW ANALYSIS Godongwana has to juggle SOEs, social grants and public sector wages in a tight socioeconomic and political situation 5 min 2 By Marianne Merten
DAYS OF ZONDO RELOADED Ramaphosa’s action plan: Easy on the politics and timeframes, but clear on stopping future procurement corruption 4 min 0 By Marianne Merten
DAYS OF ZONDO RELOADED Investigating Directorate will become permanent NPA entity ‘to strengthen anti-corruption activities’ 3 min 0 By Suné Payne
EXPORT WOES Blueberry farmers despair as Transnet strike costs them valuable windows of opportunity abroad 6 min 2 By Georgina Crouth
Business Maverick Transnet reaches three-year pay rise deal with key trade union 3 min 1 By Ray Mahlaka
STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES Ailing Transnet on the brink of becoming South Africa’s next Eskom 6 min 20 By Ray Mahlaka
Letter From The Editor We are a beautiful country but political thugs are dragging us into the Dark Ages 4 min 16 By Heather Robertson
SCORPIO NEWSFLASH NPA makes deadline to produce indictment against big fish for Transnet graft trial 4 min 7 By Jessica Bezuidenhout
DURBAN PORT DEBACLE R1bn a day — SA counts the cost while Transnet strike drags on 6 min 3 By Chris Makhaye
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK Jury is still out on SA's Q3 growth after mixed manufacturing, mining data for August 2 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
ISS TODAY ANALYSIS Weaponised drones — the latest tech threat to be employed by criminal and extremist groups in Africa 4 min 0 By Karen Allen
OPEN SECRETS: UNACCOUNTABLE 00036 T-Systems: German IT giant and State Capture profiteer 9 min 1 By Zen Mathe for Open Secrets
COMPANIES ANALYSIS Anglo’s Kumba Iron Ore counts the cost of Transnet’s force majeure 2 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
STATE CAPTURE / AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY ‘We’ve got this,’ says NPA as 14 October deadline looms for Transnet indictment 5 min 4 By Jessica Bezuidenhout for Scorpio
NEWSFLASH Transnet Port Terminals declares force majeure in the wake of ‘illegal strike’ 2 min 3 By Ed Stoddard
TRANSNET Rail and port workers' wage strike threatens to paralyse freight in South Africa 2 min 1 By Reuters