South Africa in spotlight over terror funding
South Africa has never been touched by Islamist attacks. Its three-decade-old democracy is solid, and its financial system is respected. Yet experts say the...
Equity markets await Fed decision while the rand rallies
MARKETS ON MONDAY: The rand exchange rate recovered sharply last week against the US dollar, pound and euro, while this week’s meeting of the...
The Tobacco Products and Electronic Delivery Systems Control Bill: A disaster...
The industry is dismayed that government has persisted with its misguided efforts to tarnish vaping.For that matter, the final Bill tabled in Parliament was...
Our City is no place for unbottled gherkins
GREY MUTTER: Perhaps the condition of our city and our country upsets me so much because somewhere, etched deep into a happy part of...
SA averts technical recession by the seat of its pants
While gross domestic product rose by 0.4% in the three months to March, economic growth in South Africa could detract sharply in the second...
Motorists told to take advantage of June fuel price drop, bleak...
Economists said consumers would do well to take advantage of lower fuel prices this month, because the impact of the weaker rand would definitely...
Wombs for rent? Commercial surrogacy shoots up to over $14 billion...
While commercial surrogacy is illegal in most countries, in the few that it is, the controversial industry is booming, with women ‘’renting’’ their wombs...
Equity markets recover despite interest rate threats
MARKETS ON MONDAY: Economists and investors now believe that the US economy is unlikely to move into a recession, that interest rates may not...
Village garbage man helped unearth ancient bronze statues in Tuscany
One of Italy’s most remarkable archaeological finds in decades goes on show this month - Etruscan and Roman statues pulled from the mud in...
ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air...
Technology used to automate dirty and repetitive jobs. Now, artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paid ones.WHEN ChatGPT came out last November, Olivia Lipkin,...