Hilary Joffe is a Business Day columnist. She is editor-at-large for Business Day; and worked as senior adviser at Brunswick; and as national spokesperson for Eskom

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Infrastructure-led recovery means ... investment in infrastructure

Endless conferences won't lead to any economic benefit unless the government does what it says it wants to do, writes ...

News

Booze ban 'goes well beyond what is reasonable and necessary', says SAB as it takes ...

SAB, which produces the bulk of SA’s beer, said its decision to approach the courts had been a difficult one.

Business

De Ruyter upbeat on Eskom

Eskom could shave a fifth or more from its bloated cost base as it gets a grip on its procurement and capital spending, ...

Opinion

Road to ‘bankruptcy’: Tito delivers a brutal budget warning

If anyone had expected that finance minister Tito Mboweni might try to gild the fiscal lily a little when he presented ...

Opinion

Mboweni delivers a brutal budget: Minister warns SA needs deep spending cuts or risk ...

f anyone had expected that finance minister Tito Mboweni might try to gild the fiscal lily a little when he presented ...

Business

South Africa mining sector takes huge hit

South Africa was one of the few big mining countries to shut operations in the lockdown, says a new report on global ...

News

Cyril’s rescue plan: will it work, is it enough?

He grabs R500bn from everywhere he can and is dependent on some very dodgy departments to make it work

News

SA could implode if Cyril doesn’t come up with a plan, says business

It is vital to find a balance between health and economic risks, Business for SA tells government

News

Livelihoods and lives on the table

As SA embarks on the second phase of its 35-day lockdown, industries and economists are counting the mounting cost to ...

Opinion

Reserve Bank attacks crisis with all guns blazing

ANALYSIS | The Bank has rapidly used all its weapons while the government dithers on macro-economic policy