
South African banking giant plans to exit the UK
FirstRand is making plans to exit its UK business as the banking giant has had to raise R17.7 billion in provisions to comply with a redress scheme.
WEDNESDAY, 15 APRIL 2026, 06:46

FirstRand is making plans to exit its UK business as the banking giant has had to raise R17.7 billion in provisions to comply with a redress scheme.

Combined Motor Holdings and the 102 dealerships in its network have benefited from the strong performance of South Africa’s car market over the past year.

Online betting has boomed in popularity over recent years, taking up a larger and larger share of the total market at the expense of land-based casinos and limited payout machines.

It was at The World that he found himself standing alongside one of South Africa’s most towering figures in the press, Percy Qoboza. To serve as deputy to a legend requires a particular kind of strength — not the strength that competes but the strength that complements. Latakgomo had that strength in abundance

Thembinkosi Lorch was instrumental in Al-Ittihad’s 4-1 win over Abu Salim in the Libyan Cup in what was Rulani Mokwena’s debut.

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The judiciary and legal academy entrenched the same exclusion. They protected the existing order through property law, constitutional abstraction and procedural sanctity. They elevated form above the history of conquest. They treated settler possession as the legal present and African dispossession as historical background

Analysts say that while trade diversification remains important, the Middle East provides key corridors to agricultural exports

South Africans heading to this EU country should brace for major travel disruptions as civil servants plan a nationwide strike.

Mohau Nkota looked unbothered as he rocked a Kaizer Chiefs jersey given to him by friend Mfundo Vilakazi at Al-Ettifaq training grounds.

Commissioners emphasise a people-centred just transition, focusing on rural communities, workers and climate-resilient economic planning

South African equities, bonds, and the rand felt the pain in March, with the JSE’s outperformance over the past year having come to an abrupt end.

SARS is intensifying its scrutiny on wealthy taxpayers, focusing on trusts, companies, and related structures.

While UK and US visa fees remain painfully high for South Africans, this country continues to offer the absolute cheapest travel alternative.

As wars disrupt fuel supplies and health systems, more women are being forced to give birth without timely access to skilled care

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As US envoy Leo Brent Bozell prepares to present his credentials to President Cyril Ramaphosa, can they mend a fractured Pretoria-Washington bond?

South Africa went from expecting two more interest rate cuts to now potentially seeing three rate hikes by early 2027, as inflationary pressures continue to build.

As South Africa mourns Albert Mazibuko, his life reveals the deep intersections between music, memory, displacement, and the resilience of black cultural expression.

As fuel prices continue to climb in South Africa, the ripple effect is already making its way into everyday essentials.

While Washington spent two years threatening Pretoria, Donald Trump built the conditions for his own undoing. At 35% approval and $4-a-gallon gas, the leverage is expiring.