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Month: July 2025

Fixing SA’s water woes means curtailing municipalities’ free-spending ways

July 31, 2025 Ciaran Ryan 0

A look at two reforms that aim to thwart municipalities’ spendthrift ways. From Moneyweb. The seemingly impossible task of preventing municipalities from spending water and […]

Masie’s message to Discovery and Naspers: Get with the bitcoin programme

July 30, 2025 Ciaran Ryan 0

JSE-listed companies should be adopting bitcoin strategic reserves if they pause and take a serious look at the state of SA and the prospects for […]

What happens when you put 10% of your monthly salary into bitcoin

July 29, 2025 Ciaran Ryan 0

Based on an average South African salary, an investor would be close to R2 million since 2018. From Moneyweb. Putting 10% of an average South […]

Identifying the bugs in SA’s long-promised infrastructure boom

July 29, 2025 Ciaran Ryan 0

Some, such as regulatory reform, are easily fixed. Now comes the hard part. From Moneyweb. SA’s rail network needs about R300 billion invested in trains […]

Luno launches tokenised US stocks

July 25, 2025 Ciaran Ryan 0

In the same week that crypto exchange VALR launches a USD private credit token targeting 8% to 10% growth a year. From Moneyweb. It’s been […]

Bitcoin miners are solving Africa’s huge power deficit

July 24, 2025 Ciaran Ryan 0

Kenya-based Gridless Compute is a bitcoin miner with six sites in four countries. Now it’s going into power generation, bringing electricity to the most stranded […]

Auditor-General’s war on waste and corruption yields R4.5bn

July 24, 2025 Ciaran Ryan 0

But it’s a war that is far from won. From Moneyweb. Auditor-General (AG) Tsakani Maluleke says R4.5 billion has been recovered over the last five […]

Bad day in home foreclosure court for Nedbank and its lawyers

July 21, 2025 Ciaran Ryan 0

Lawyers referred to Legal Practice Council for misleading the court. From Moneyweb. It was a bad day in court last week for Nedbank, its property […]

SAA slips back into loss as fuel and plane leasing costs spiral

July 18, 2025 Ciaran Ryan 0

Reports a R352m loss for the last financial year after a R210m profit in 2024. From Moneyweb. Soaring fuel prices and a 30% increase in […]

Are institutions falling in love with Sasol again?

July 17, 2025 Ciaran Ryan 0

There’s been massive institutional buying in recent weeks, prompted by the potential for further Trump tariffs on Russia. From Moneyweb. Sasol’s stock price broke R93 […]

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