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Month: March 2026

Mantashe wants to ramp up local fuel refining capacity, but has that boat sailed?

March 17, 2026 Ciaran Ryan 0

Four refineries are either offline or shut down, leaving SA massively dependent on imports at a time when war is raging in the Middle East. […]

Is Ray Dalio’s bitcoin negativity justified?

March 13, 2026 Ciaran Ryan 0

He may be more hip to gold than bitcoin, which he says has several serious flaws. Not so fast, says macro strategist Shiven Moodley. From Moneyweb. […]

AI is dumping 150-page complaints on finance ombud’s desk

March 13, 2026 Ciaran Ryan 0

What used to take a paragraph or two now comes in book-sized tomes, often with fake legal cases as references. From Moneyweb. The idea that […]

Sasol has nearly doubled in 12 months, but is it still cheap?

March 13, 2026 Ciaran Ryan 0

The conflict in the Middle East has pushed oil to prices last seen in 2022. Sasol’s business model is structured for much lower prices, which […]

Employees are gambling away their paycheques

March 13, 2026 Ciaran Ryan 0

Four out of every 10 people who earn an income gamble regularly, according to Old Mutual Corporate. From Moneyweb. New research shows that 40% of […]

Your forex allowance just went up to R2m a year – here’s what you could do

March 13, 2026 Ciaran Ryan 0

You can now buy $120 000 a year instead of $60 000 without any permissions from the Reserve Bank – and there’s plenty you can […]

Middle East aviation crisis traps thousands of South Africans

March 13, 2026 Ciaran Ryan 0

The bigger question is whether Doha and Dubai will be permanently damaged by the conflict now raging in the region. From Moneyweb. David Farelo was […]

Big drop in electricity tariffs may rescue SA’s collapsing chrome smelters

March 13, 2026 Ciaran Ryan 0

Ferrochrome producer Glencore-Merafe has been offered 62c per kWh – less than half what it was paying in 2025. From Moneyweb. South Africa’s shrinking ferrochrome […]

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