The Writer's Room

Joburg has a R44bn City Power problem Funds paid by residents for electricity are swept into a common pool for use elsewhere, which helps explain […]

Gold share rally turns into dead cat bounce Does this mean it’s safe to enter the water again? Gold has been in retreat in the […]

Stablecoins take centre stage as bitcoin speculation fades Absa digital assets head Rob Downes says stablecoin flows across the bank’s African markets have more than […]

I was fined R5m and debarred over R301 in test trades, says Wheatley Former Africa Bitcoin CEO says he plans to ask for reconsideration of […]

Financial alarm bells ring across seven of SA’s eight metros Only Cape Town shows any spending restraint, says Ratings Afrika. South Africa’s metropolitan municipalities are […]

Crypto firm NTC fails in eleventh hour bid to escape final liquidation Its attempt to overturn the provisional liquidation order granted days after the assassination […]

R2.2bn in investment on hold over proposed crypto controls – VALR VALR CEO Farzam Ehsani warns that the draft crypto rules on exchange controls could […]

Durban port deal rescues Transnet from another nasty loss Transnet’s financial recovery masks deeper structural problems. Its debt, which has topped R150bn, remains one of […]

It’s time to get the political hacks out of Joburg city management The city’s alarming decay in the last decade has been enabled by a […]

How South Africa became a mining country again Resources have tripled their weighting on the JSE over the past decade, and four miners have muscled […]