Cash Leaves With the Corner Shop
In much of township and rural South Africa, the spaza shop is not only a shop. It is the cash machine, the informal lender, the place a grant is broken into change and a phone is topped up, the counter where a neighbour runs a tab until month-end. A great many of...
R19 Billion in Remittances Now Sits Inside a Political Risk Event
South Africa spent the better part of a decade celebrating financial inclusion: mobile wallets for the unbanked, cheaper cross-border transfers, a formal remittance channel that pulled billions out of shoeboxes and taxi-rank couriers and into regulated rails. That...
Cabanga TV is live: watch how Capitec became South Africa’s biggest Bank
A R4.3 million online shop, a women-led car plant, Durban's big build and the township property market are among the South African stories now free to watch. JOHANNESBURG, 17 October 2026 - How does a bank that started with nothing become the biggest in the country?...
Market Movers: How MTN Reshuffled Its People Chief and Country CEOs
The hardest reshuffle to read is the quiet one. A dramatic chief-executive exit makes headlines and tells its own story; a coordinated set of senior moves across the people function and two country operations rarely does, yet it often says more about where a group...
Botswana to Open Moscow Embassy, Woos Russian Investors for Rare Earths
Small economies cannot afford a single buyer for what they sell or a single partner for the capital they need. The diamond slump has made that lesson concrete, and it explains a diplomatic move that would otherwise read as merely symbolic. On 4 January 2026, Foreign...
Lesotho’s AI pilot turns policy into infrastructure planning
Lesotho is the first country to apply the UN Blueprint for National AI and Data Strategies, moving the debate from aspiration to sequencing compute, power, connectivity, skills and governance.
What a R2 billion cleaning contract really buys
A Cape Town facilities tender worth more than R2 billion reveals cleaning as a serious procurement market with many service layers, and a map of the capabilities buyers really pay for.
Top of the Exchange: How Valdene Reddy Took the Helm at the JSE
Valdene Reddy became JSE CEO on 1 April 2026, succeeding Leila Fourie, bringing 20 years of capital-markets experience and a transformation mandate.
Malaria Cases Surge as Residents Shun Indoor Spraying in the North West
Botswana’s North West District logged 38 malaria cases and one death over the 2025-26 rains as 964 residents refused indoor spraying, exposing a coverage gap.
The African Union Test South Africa Did Not Want
How anti-migrant violence erodes South Africa’s diplomatic capital at the AU, SADC and AfCFTA — and why standing is an economic asset investors should price.
Eight Steps From Informal Cleaning Hustle to Registered Supplier
Registration alone changes little. These eight steps take a South African cleaning operator from an informal round to a supplier a formal client will contract.
The Formalisation Gap Holding Back Township Cleaning Businesses
A township cleaning round can earn real money and still be shut out of finance and formal clients. The barrier is usually not demand but a missing registration.
Six Records That Make a Business Cleaning Programme Auditable
Undocumented cleaning is invisible cleaning. Six records – schedule, checklists, chemical data, training, incidents and sign-off – turn a business hygiene routine into evidence.
Cleaning Has Quietly Become a Governance Problem for Small Firms
For most small firms cleaning is a grudge purchase. Under the OHS Act it has quietly become a governance duty, and treating it as cosmetic is now a business risk.
New Suite: How Absa Reshuffled Its Banking and Governance Leadership
Absa’s February 2026 reshuffle named a payments-native retail CEO and refreshed governance, audit and compliance leadership, signalling its strategy.
Molopo Farmers Pool Funds for a 200km FMD Barrier
Molopo River farmers pooled funds in late January 2026 for a 200km FMD barrier fence to block disease from South Africa and protect Botswana’s EU beef markets.
South Africa’s Sovereign Reputation Is Now a Workplace Issue
How South Africa treats African workers now reaches ratings committees, investors and development partners. Put rule-of-law evidence in investor communications.
Seven Steps to Start a Cleaning Business With Almost No Equipment
The most expensive mistake a new cleaning business can make is to buy the equipment first. A service can prove demand with a bucket, a plan and a way to be found.
He Started by Washing His Neighbours’ Bins. Now He Employs Six
Bulelani Njobe founded Oracle Green by cleaning neighbours’ dustbins for a small fee in Langa. The path from one repeatable task to a business employing six is worth reading closely.
FMD Response Shifts from Culling to Vaccination in Zone 6b
Botswana’s early-2026 choice to vaccinate rather than cull Zone 6b cattle against FMD eases farmer losses while protecting premium beef export access.
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