A general view of the city of Johannesburg is seen as the sun rises, in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Black Management Forum (BMF) has sounded the alarm on South Africa’s deepening inequalities, as leaders from business, government, labour, and civil society gather in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape for the organisation’s 2025 Policy Conference. The…
Teenagers pose for a photo while holding smartphones in front of a Youtube logo in this illustration taken September 11, 2025. Google’s YouTube and Walt Disney said on Friday they had reached an agreement to restore Disney-owned networks to YouTube TV, after a fee dispute left millions of subscribers without access to U.S. Election Day…
FlySafair plane in flight A wage agreement has been reached between airline FlySafair and the SA Cabin Crew Association (SACCA). This brings to an end the almost two-week industrial action that saw the employer locking workers out. FlySafair says the signed agreement is a 4-year wage increase of between 6 and 6,9% and a guaranteed…
[File Image]: Global ratings agency Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings downgraded South Africa’s currency to junk status on Friday. Chief Economist at Efficient Group, Dawie Roodt, says more work still needs to be done to improve South Africa’s economic conditions. This comes after the global rating agency, Standard and Poor’s (S&P), raised South Africa’s credit…
Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau speaking during an event. Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau has received the Competition Commission’s Media and Digital Platforms Market Inquiry report for tabling in Parliament. Speaking at the release of the report in Sandton, Johannesburg, the minister notes that the shift to online news consumption facilitated…
The Google logo is seen on the Google house at CES 2024 A report by the Competition Commission has revealed that major global platforms including Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok, X and AI companies, dominate key gateways that South Africans use to access news and information. The final Media and Digital Platforms Market Inquiry Report notes…
Eskom Power utility Eskom is meeting with labour unions at the National Bargaining Forum for a round of wage negotiations. Labour unions have tabled a 15 percent salary demand for their members at Eskom in early wage negotiations at the entity. The 7 percent multi-year agreement currently in place comes to an end in June…
South African rands. The rand firmed below the R17 mark for the first time in over two years. The local unit last traded at that level against the greenback in January 2023. The gains are attributed to Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s announcement of a three percent new inflation target, a first adjustment in 25 years….
President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks at the Construction Summit. President Cyril Ramphosa says the construction industry is once again poised to be the flywheel of growth, after contributing over 50% of the jobs created in the third quarter. He was speaking at the Second Annual National Construction Summit underway in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni, earlier on Thursday. The…
FEDUSA General Secretary Riefdah Ajam The Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) has warned that making fiscal discipline a priority over social justice in the Mid-Term Budget Policy Statement will hurt the working class and poor. The labour federation has welcomed some infrastructure investments but says reform8s must protect jobs and workers’ rights….
