Business Day - July 15, 2025

Transnet downgrade

Amsa long steel unit still needs help

‘Prepare for the worst’

Safaricom raises the bar

Print’s fall ‘not terminal’

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Incoming acting minister a ‘man in clean, white suit entering a pigsty’

Kubayi tipped to be named interim minister of police

S&P downgrades Transnet

BD: Indicators

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BLSA sounds warning on tariffs

Regulator to halve approval time for local drugmakers

AI pitfalls could ‘lead to lawyers being disbarred’

SA proposed LNG investment, car tariff relief in US deal

SA opens G20 finance deputies meeting with focus on debt woes

Deadline nears for public comment on municipal reforms

No grants will be cancelled while Sassa verifies incomes

US envoy visits Kyiv as Trump agrees to send Patriot missiles

Iran vows response to any new UN sanctions

Syrian sectarian fighting intensifies in Druze city

US defence spending to boost space start-ups

Hosepipe ban imposed in UK amid dry weather

Coalition to buy firms’ carbon removal credits

Svyrydenko asked to become Ukraine premier

No, the president does not have emperor-like powers

Ramaphosa misses another opportunity

Russian education ruined Africa

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Agoa isn’t such a big deal for SA and we should stop focusing on it

Trump’s tactics align with the insights of ancient Greeks

Will AI implode the job market in a turbulent global economy?

JSE keeps to Maltese defence as ‘Bomb Squad’ tries to halt MAS coup

Time to say goodbye to silicon chips

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Amsa’s long steel unit still struggling after state help

Safaricom raises the bar in Ethiopia

Tariffs see debt issuers go to private placements

South32’s Mozal smelter faces uncertainty over electricity supply

PIC to up investments in rural and township enterprises

Decline of print is not terminal, Novus says

BAT’s regional director for Asia Pacific to step down

Loro Piana put under court control due to worker abuse

Burberry investors applaud early signs of recovery

BHP to team up with CATL, BYD on mining battery power

Kenvue CEO quits amid investor activism

McGraw Hill targets $4.2bn valuation

Waters Corporation to merge in $17.5bn deal

Musk makes U-turn on Tesla and xAI merger

Wizz Air shifts focus to European markets

Indonesia weighs US energy imports

When crime pays, a country sinks

Sinner brushes setbacks aside

Mouw secures first PGA title after epic comeback

McIlroy turns attention to Open

Brevis, Hermann shine for Proteas

Harare and Lord’s… tale of two matches

England, India in a thriller

Yellow jersey for first Irishman in decades

Shane Lowry fancies chances of second Open

Praise for Palmer after Club World Cup title