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When amendments to the Companies Act are signed into law, companies will have to disclose the gap between the highest-paid and the lowest-paid employee. Graphic: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp

Remuneration & Payroll

New law will reveal South Africa’s huge pay gaps

Dr Salomé Teuteberg 2 days

Source: Reuters.

Infrastructure & Utilities

More than R200m spent on unused sports stadiums by Limpopo municipalities

GroundUp Staff and The Outlier 1 Dec 2025

Markets & Investment

US, Japan, and Eurozone's central banks diverge in rate policies

Izak Odendaal 4 Nov 2025

Finance

More than 10-million consumers cannot repay their debt

GroundUp and The Outlier 3 Nov 2025

Source: Pexels.

Infrastructure & Utilities

Billions needed to fix courts, prisons and police buildings

GroundUp and The Outlier 3 Oct 2025

Source: Wikipedia.

Infrastructure & Utilities

Passenger rail gets back on track, slowly

GroundUp and The Outlier 29 Sep 2025

Source: Mike Adsetts, Global Chief Investment Officer: Momentum Investments.

Finance

Rethinking South Africa’s Two-Pot system: Lessons from abroad

Mike Adsetts 22 Sep 2025

$40 years strong: How TBWA\Coastal helped Build it become a household name$

Advertising

40 years strong: How TBWA\Coastal helped Build it become a household name

Issued by TBWA 9 Sep 2025

Iata: Global air traffic up 5% in May as Asia-Pacific, Africa lead gains

Travel

Iata: Global air traffic up 5% in May as Asia-Pacific, Africa lead gains

2 Jul 2025

Source: © 123rf Ryan Campher, VML SA data lead, asks, while AI drives modern marketing, what happens when flawed inputs lead it astray?

Artificial Intelligence

Will your AI promote clarity or confusion, progress or noise?

Ryan Campher 25 Jun 2025

Corporates scale back remote and hybrid work arrangements

HR & Management

Corporates scale back remote and hybrid work arrangements

17 Apr 2025

Daily Maverick won three categories in the Wan-Ifra Digital Media Awards Africa 2025, the most from South Africa and also the most of all the entries (Image supplied)

Media

SA leads Wan-Ifra Digital Media Awards Africa 2025 winners list

7 Apr 2025

Source: © 123rf The Digital Media Awards Africa 2025 finalists have been announced, with SA and Daily Maverick dominating the list

Publishing

SA and Daily Maverick dominate Wan-Ifra Digital Awards Africa 2025 finalists

2 Apr 2025

Jazz legends line up with young trailblazers for Diamond City Jazz Festival

Music

Jazz legends line up with young trailblazers for Diamond City Jazz Festival

Debbie Hathway 20 Mar 2025

Media

As trust plummets, how can mainstream media rebuild credibility?

Anita Varma 6 Jan 2025

Media

‘News influencers’ are racking up billions of views – and not checking their facts

Kelly Fincham 13 Dec 2024

Source: wirestock via

Logistics & Transport

Report: Driver training and telematics drive fleet safety improvements

13 Nov 2024

Property

Steady population shift to areas around cities

23 Oct 2024

#BehindtheIMC: Marko Stavrou: Inside the mind of Gen Z with The Gen Z Guy

IMC Conference

#BehindtheIMC: Marko Stavrou: Inside the mind of Gen Z with The Gen Z Guy

2 Sep 2024

Source: Kimberley Taylor, founder and chief executive officer of Loop.

Technology

Loop CEO champions women in STEM, leading inclusive innovation

14 Aug 2024

Source: © 123rf The Wan-Ifra Digital Media Awards Africa finalists have been announced

Media

Wan-Ifra Digital Media Awards Africa finalists

9 Apr 2024

Leap days are special for many reasons.

Construction & Engineering

Leap Day: The problem that changed the history of time

Lindsey Schutters 29 Feb 2024

Property

Sectional title house prices rising faster than freehold – for first time in two decades

Andrew Golding 5 Feb 2024

Source: Supplied. Jeff Ryan, managing director for AWCape.

Trends

#BizTrends2024: 5 trends redefining business integration

Jeff Ryan 29 Jan 2024

#BizTrends2024: Ndeye Diagne - Africa at a crossroads: Threads of gold

Advertising

#BizTrends2024: Ndeye Diagne - Africa at a crossroads: Threads of gold

Karabo Ledwaba 16 Jan 2024

Image supplied. The national winners of the 2023 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards

Media

The 2023 national Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards winners

1 Dec 2023

Residential Property

TPN: Renters paying, escalations slowing

15 Nov 2023

Massmart's 'The Last Chance Store' is a winner with bargain-hungry customers

Retail

Massmart's 'The Last Chance Store' is a winner with bargain-hungry customers

4 Oct 2023

Property

Johannesburg tops global rankings as most affordable city for property ownership since 2018

20 Sep 2023

Property

Rental arrears rising, reveals PayProp in latest Rental Index

14 Sep 2023

Source: Supplied. Podcast creator and host Maria Christodoulou.

Healthcare

The health podcast everyone's been waiting for

3 May 2023

Media

All the 2022 national Vodacom Journalist of the Year award winners

25 Nov 2022

Image supplied. The 2022 Vodacom Journalist of the Year (VJOY) Awards for the Gauteng Region winners

Media

All the 2022 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards for the Gauteng Region

31 Oct 2022

Ignite@Verve launched

Marketing

Ignite@Verve launched

Issued by VERVE 8 Sep 2022

Image source: August de Richelieu from

Distance Learning

3 trends impacting SA's homeschool environment

Louise Schoonwinkel 13 Jun 2022

New report: SA property bears brunt of Covid-19 economic fallout

Markets & Investment

New report: SA property bears brunt of Covid-19 economic fallout

8 Apr 2022

Markets & Investment

Rand breaks through key technical levels

Andre Cilliers 21 Jan 2022

Source: Reuters/Sumaya Hisham

Covid-19

SA puts brakes on Covid-19 vaccine delivery

Promit Mukherjee 24 Nov 2021

If you could only keep one loyalty programme, which one would it be?

CRM, CX, UX

If you could only keep one loyalty programme, which one would it be?

Issued by BrandMapp 6 Oct 2021

International efforts should prioritise equitable access to vaccines. Immanuel A.Afolabi/Majority World/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Covid-19

The impact of Covid-19 has been lower in Africa. We explore the reasons

Alex Ezeh, Michael Silverman & Saverio Stranges 18 Aug 2021

#BizTrends2021: There's good news as well as bad for the property industry

Trends

#BizTrends2021: There's good news as well as bad for the property industry

Paul Stevens 6 Jan 2021

Nurturing female talent in technology is critical

ICT

Nurturing female talent in technology is critical

Natasha Reuben 8 Oct 2020

Over 60% of students to return to campus

Higher Education

Over 60% of students to return to campus

27 Aug 2020

Excuse me Mr President, could we have a drink, please?

FMCG

Excuse me Mr President, could we have a drink, please?

Rowan Leibbrandt 3 Aug 2020

A resilient, cloud-based digital future

Cloud

A resilient, cloud-based digital future

18 May 2020

Clickety-click with Clickatell's CEO, Pieter de Villiers

#StartupStory

Clickety-click with Clickatell's CEO, Pieter de Villiers

Evan-Lee Courie 20 Feb 2020

Africa Studios/Shutterstock

Pharmaceuticals

Clinical trials: how to make informed consent more ethical

Jeremy Howick 19 Feb 2020