Edcon, SA’s largest clothing company, on which more than 100,000 people rely, faced extinction last year. But thanks to a series of savvy interventions by CEO ...

In the crumbling Mpumalanga town of Standerton, chicken producer Astral Foods can’t get the water it needs to operate. In the Free State and Eastern Cape, ...

A successful banker turned venture capitalist, Michael Jordaan is the new breed of SA entrepreneur. Two of his ventures, Bank Zero and Rain, attest to this ...

While MXit was popular in the feature phone market, it failed to recognise the transition to smartphones

Investors have called Naspers a ‘one-trick pony’ referring to the one spectacular investment in Tencent, and nothing since that has even come close

Van Dijk, based in the Netherlands, is the first foreigner to head Naspers – a blue-blood SA firm that began life as De Nasionale Pers Beperkt in 1915

Bob van Dijk inherited an enviable problem when he took over at Naspers: the success of Chinese firm Tencent meant everything else Naspers did was ignored. ...

It seems our top executives all too often are being paid for perfection while delivering mediocrity at best

According to research by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, SA is losing R14bn a year to illegal gold mining

The SA gold mining industry is on its deathbed, even though SA still has the world’s largest gold deposits. What happens to the abandoned mines? Is there a gap ...

Godsell says the move to state custodianship of mineral resources in 2004 was necessary

Has the dire past decade made SA Inc uninvestable? For foreigners, it’s a hard sell, especially since $100 invested in the JSE five years ago would now be ...

There have been pockets of clear investment success in SA – like its highly regarded renewable energy independent power producer programme

The DA's promised surge in Gauteng failed to materialise. Instead, the ANC hung onto the country's economic heartland by the most razor-thin of margins. What ...