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Month: November 2024

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Why Africans are falling in love with US dollar stablecoins

November 1, 2024 Ciaran Ryan 0

It has less to do with crypto speculation than hedging against weakening local currencies. From Moneyweb. The rand may have notched up modest gains against […]

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WesBank customer’s 20-year quest for justice is now before the ConCourt

November 1, 2024 Ciaran Ryan 0

Mzukisi Ndara bought a used car but was charged for a new one, as well as extras he did not want. He’s written a book […]

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Transnet slammed for requesting tariff increases for ‘doing nothing’

November 1, 2024 Ciaran Ryan 0

The Road Freight Association disputes claims that Transnet has improved performance at the Durban container port. From Moneyweb. The Road Freight Association has slammed Transnet’s […]

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Ramaphosa orders probe into Gupta breakfast briefings with SABC

November 1, 2024 Ciaran Ryan 0

The briefings cost the state broadcaster more than R20m, helping keep the Guptas media empire afloat. From Moneyweb. President Cyril Ramaphosa has ordered the Special […]

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Backlash over Capitec’s crypto-purchase restrictions

November 1, 2024 Ciaran Ryan 0

The bank has decided to block electronic fund transfers to crypto exchanges, urging customers to use its more expensive Capitec Pay app instead. From Moneyweb. […]

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Property mogul Roux Shabangu loses another Sars battle

November 1, 2024 Ciaran Ryan 0

This week the Pretoria High Court provisionally sequestrated his personal estate and that of his family trust. From Moneyweb. Businessman Roux Shabangu’s run of bad […]

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It’s way past time for competition at state-owned monopolies

November 1, 2024 Ciaran Ryan 0

The country can no longer afford this astonishing record of failure. From Moneyweb. The ANC government was only too happy to inherit key state-owned monopolies […]

Recent Articles

  • Calls for scrap metal inquiry after price-fixing-cartel ruling
  • Maersk fails to halt ICTSI-Transnet Durban Container Terminal deal
  • Zimbabwe and Lesotho permit holders get a reprieve until May 2027
  • PIC sets up R1.35bn fund for early-stage mining
  • SA is no country for young people
  • The stablecoin gold rush is here 
  • Gold is the new anchor for SA’s mining sector
  • 17 years after the fact, Cape Gate found guilty of scrap metal price-fixing
  • Western Cape municipalities and Midvaal are the only ones in any kind of shape
  • Are gold shares overdone, or is this just the start of a bull market?
  • Will stablecoins one day rule the world?
  • Port of Gauteng aims to revitalise rail, remove 30% of trucks from the N3
  • Tembisa Hospital crime syndicates bypassed every trigger alert in the book
  • Turnarounds at Eskom and Transnet not yet showing in GDP figures
  • Backlash against World Bank’s ranking of Durban as the world’s worst port

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