Firefighters are battling a relentless fire in Table Mountain National Park, which started making its way towards the Cape Town CBD on Tuesday night. No evacuations have been ordered at this stage as aerial and ground crews work to contain the blaze, with several trails, roads and the cableway closed.

By sidelining the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Donald Trump has opened the floodgates for a new era of economic warfare where the highest bidder — not the best business practices — determines the future of global investments.

The miner said the project did not meet its investment hurdle rates.

The bodies of five people who were swept away by floods in Lamontville, south of Durban, after heavy rainfall in KwaZulu-Natal have been recovered.

Standard Bank Group chief executive officer Sim Tshabalala has criticised international credit rating agencies, claiming that South Africa’s credit rating is arguably four notches lower than it should be due to biases against the continent.

Almost five years after it closed, first because of Covid-19 and then structural and safety issues, the Johannesburg City Library is scheduled to partially reopen on 21 March.

The solution to the budget problem lies in economic growth, not taxation. But between the ideological fixations of the incumbents and the GNU partners’ untested credentials, we simply don’t know if this will take place, writes Khaya Sithole.