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It’s all stations to Cape Town as the rail plan comes on track

A deal with Prasa has been signed — but how will the running of the city’s own railway be funded, an expert asks

The shapeshifter revolutionising retail

Neil Schreuder is chief strategy and innovation officer for the Shoprite Group and MD of ShopriteX

The troubling decline of the South African sorghum industry

Whenever I post on social media about the challenges in the maize industry, I get responses from people arguing that South Africans should consume more sorghum

The shapeshifter revolutionising retail

The 2024 AdFocus Shapeshifter of the Year is Neil Schreuder, chief strategy and innovation officer for the Shoprite Group and MD of ShopriteX

SA’s agriculture in 2024 and outlook for 2025

Field crops and livestock subsectors had many challenges, while the horticulture subsector had a better year

Assad and Astérix

In January 2012, as Syria burned, Asma al-Assad e-mailed her dictator husband, Bashar, about ordering a fondue set from Amazon. “Pls can we get one?” she asked.

DINNER PARTY INTEL: Groceries delivered right where you swim

It seems ‘No place too unusual’ will soon become the motto of the Checkers Sixty60 delivery service

AdFocus winners find smarter solutions

Innovation as a cornerstone allows winners to set new benchmarks

Rassie Erasmus: the rugby revolutionary

The easy part is picking a strategy and plan, and getting the best people to execute it. The hard part is going from good to great (or, indeed, one of the ...

Sarika Lakraj-Naidoo: whistleblower, ‘troublemaker’, Blueprint prize winner

She has been threatened, survived an assassination attempt and can’t find work — but now at last she has also been rewarded for her courage

Jacob Zuma: the master of destruction

By returning from the dead so dramatically this year at the head of the MK Party, Jacob ‘Zombie’ Zuma has demonstrated there is still plenty for us to be ...

The Odd Number punches above its weight

The AdFocus judges note that The Odd Number consistently produces work of a world-class standard

It’s raining data

How Shoprite’s precision retail media approach may turn the supermarket group into an ad business

MARC HASENFUSS: I know it’s only stock and roll …

Zahid Group’s offer to buy out industrial giant Barloworld is a timely reminder that scepticism can be misplaced

A good week for Joe Coetzer

In a shootout with cash van robbers the policeman was wounded in a hand and lost a leg — but he carries on fighting crime, now as the leader of a Hawks unit

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Gauteng not taking water day zero threat seriously, say political parties

Luyolo Mkentane

Gauteng businesses could lose about R3bn a day if they shut down due to water cuts

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Numsa embarks on indefinite strike at Bidvest container depot

Luyolo Mkentane

Failure to ‘find each other’ during negotiations to rescue 106 jobs leads to Numsa strike in Durban

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Gambling board warns against betting as financial pressures mount

Nompilo Goba

South Africans facing the economic challenges of 2025 warned to avoid risking all for a windfall

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Afrimat bolsters top brass with historic vice-CFO appointment

Michelle Gumede

Andre Smith will assist Pieter de Wit with some of his daily tasks, and this position has now been made permanent

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Opinion

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EDITORIAL: Win-win and lose at the asset manager dance

The Sanlam-Ninety One deal has spurred speculation about consolidation in the industry

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LETTER: Taking a scalpel to carbon emissions

What the Western Cape health department is doing to fight climate change

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The troubling decline of the South African sorghum industry

Whenever I post on social media about the challenges in the maize industry, I get responses from people arguing that South Africans should consume more sorghum

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