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If you stepped away for 90 days, would your franchise survive?

Franchising

If you stepped away for 90 days, would your franchise survive?

Larry Hodes 9 hours

African EV startup Spiro raises R3.4bn to expand battery-swapping network

Funding

African EV startup Spiro raises R3.4bn to expand battery-swapping network

10 hours

SA steps up FMD response to safeguard livestock exports

Agriculture

SA steps up FMD response to safeguard livestock exports

12 hours

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Higher Education

Eduvos adds new education, commerce postgrad qualifications

1 day

Rethinking bereavement leave: Why 3 days is often not enough

Employee Wellness

Rethinking bereavement leave: Why 3 days is often not enough

Issued by Sonja Smith Elite Funeral Group 1 day

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Criminal Law

White-collar crime in Africa: Cross-border trends reshape corporate risk

Lionel van Tonder, Garth Duncan and Brittany Leroni 1 day

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Agriculture

SADC urged to fast-track fertiliser reforms as food insecurity persists

1 day

How Twincare International keeps 2,000+ salons informed (and turns events into ROI)

Marketing

How Twincare International keeps 2,000+ salons informed (and turns events into ROI)

Issued by Everlytic 1 day

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Finance

Liberty’s 2025 claims hit R12.63bn — but young adult deaths surge 15%

1 day

Some learners at schools in the Amathole District and parts of the Chris Hani District in the Eastern Cape have missed days of school after transport operators employed by government went on strike due to unpaid wages. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Primary & Secondary Education

Eastern Cape scholar transport on strike over unpaid wages

29 May 2026

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Construction & Engineering

Architects and contractors: Get ready to unlock 2026 project wins

29 May 2026

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Higher Education

Kenya's Strathmore University wins Africa space law moot court

29 May 2026

DBSA: Why early childhood development infrastructure matters

Early Childhood Development

DBSA: Why early childhood development infrastructure matters

Issued by Trialogue 29 May 2026

Africa outpaces global travel slowdown with 2.2% growth

Travel

Africa outpaces global travel slowdown with 2.2% growth

29 May 2026

Bradly Howland, CEO, Alkemi Collective, examines the danger of AI efficiency (Image source: © 123rf )

PR & Communications

AI is making work faster but speed is not the test. Judgment is.

Bradly Howland 28 May 2026

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Infrastructure & Utilities

Planned Rand Water maintenance may affect municipalities, industries and mines

28 May 2026

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Construction & Engineering

Construction of solar facility set to power 60,000 households

28 May 2026

Cape Town events drive strong hotel occupancy

Hospitality

Cape Town events drive strong hotel occupancy

27 May 2026

Penquin strengthens team with strategic new hires as agency growth gains momentum

Advertising

Penquin strengthens team with strategic new hires as agency growth gains momentum

Issued by Penquin 27 May 2026

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Logistics & Transport

New import rules target unsafe goods entering SA market

27 May 2026

SMEs: Turning difficult conversations into better performance

SMEs

SMEs: Turning difficult conversations into better performance

Jeremy Lang, Issued by Business Partners Limited 27 May 2026

#WorldFoodSafetyDay: WHO urges food service kitchens to 'prepare for the unexpected'

Food & bev. services

#WorldFoodSafetyDay: WHO urges food service kitchens to 'prepare for the unexpected'

27 May 2026

South Africa must unlock agricultural productivity to fight food inflation

Agriculture

South Africa must unlock agricultural productivity to fight food inflation

Peter Setou 26 May 2026

Reside Summit 2026 proves housing is no longer a siloed conversation

Residential Property

Reside Summit 2026 proves housing is no longer a siloed conversation

Issued by Catchwords 26 May 2026

Why more South African businesses are turning to flexible storage solutions

Transport

Why more South African businesses are turning to flexible storage solutions

Issued by Inospace 26 May 2026

Why we need to re-evaluate Stem education

Skills Training

Why we need to re-evaluate Stem education

Issued by North-West University (NWU) 26 May 2026

Supplied image (L-R): Adri Marais, CEO of Christel House South Africa; David Maynier, Western Cape Minister of Education and Wendy Viljoen, Senior Manager: Edu Invest (Wesgro)

Primary & Secondary Education

Christel House SA celebrates 25 years by opening new high school campus

26 May 2026

#AfricaMonth: Expertise to unlock mining’s catalytic impact on Africa’s infrastructure

Mining

#AfricaMonth: Expertise to unlock mining’s catalytic impact on Africa’s infrastructure

Issued by SRK Consulting 26 May 2026

Dr. Nyembezi’s has been appointed as group executive: technology at SABC. Source: SABC.

Media

SABC appoints Dr Vuyo Nyembezi as group executive: technology

26 May 2026

The Supreme Court of Appeal has overturned a Gauteng High Court ruling that allowed German firm Frazer Solar to attach Lesotho state assets worth R950-million. Photo: Ben Bezuidenhout via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Corporate & Commercial Law

Court halts solar company from seizing Lesotho’s assets

Sechaba Mokhethi 25 May 2026

Improving South Africa’s ECD: From theory to practice

Early Childhood Development

Improving South Africa’s ECD: From theory to practice

Issued by Grow ECD 26 May 2026

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Law Practice

#AfricaMonth | Africa's bright future as an international arbitration hub

Jonathan Barnes and Samantha Mason 25 May 2026

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Banking

Afreximbank posts strong Q1 2026 growth amid global headwinds

25 May 2026

Fuel pump nozzles for gasoline at a TotalEnergies gas station in Paris, France. Image credit: Reuters/Benoit Tessier

Coal, Oil & Gas

Iran war is exposing South Africa’s dependency on diesel: what went wrong

Lisette IJssel de Schepper 25 May 2026

South Africa’s government is drowning in its own complexity

Higher Education

South Africa’s government is drowning in its own complexity

Issued by North-West University (NWU) 22 May 2026

Think, prepare, respond: How finance leaders can help businesses navigate the Middle East crisis

Financial Services

Think, prepare, respond: How finance leaders can help businesses navigate the Middle East crisis

Tariro Mutizwa, Issued by AICPA & CIMA 22 May 2026

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Construction & Engineering

Are university land sales unexpectedly driving urban development?

Katja Hamilton 22 May 2026

Seynabou Diop works at a station in a laboratory where the hantavirus genome was sequenced from the April 2026 outbreak, at Institut Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal. Image credit: Reuters/Ricci Shryock

Infectious Diseases

Hantavirus in Africa: why climate change, rats and weak surveillance are worrying scientists

Wolfgang Preiser, Carla Mavian, Cheryl Baxter, Richard Lessells and Tulio de Oliveira 22 May 2026

Edge Growth partners with FNB to scale local agro processors

SMEs

Edge Growth partners with FNB to scale local agro processors

Issued by Edge Growth 21 May 2026

UP breaks ground on major solar PV project at Persequor Park

Higher Education

UP breaks ground on major solar PV project at Persequor Park

Issued by University of Pretoria 21 May 2026

A health worker takes the temperature of a woman passing through the Kanyaruchinya checkpoint, as authorities and aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain, in the northern entry into the city of Goma, North Kivu province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Image credit: Reuters/Arlette Bashizi

Infectious Diseases

Stellies leads efforts to curb Ebola outbreak as WHO warns of escalation

21 May 2026

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Energy

Eskom in talks with World Bank over nuclear expansion in SA

Wendell Roelf 21 May 2026

Based in Cape Town, the Astron Energy Refinery, formerly the Chevron Oil Refinery, is the third-largest crude oil refinery in South Africa. Image credit: , , via Wikimedia Commons

Mining

South Africa to pump R2.86bn into mineral and petroleum sector

20 May 2026

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Tourism & Travel

King Shaka Airport drives KZN tourism and trade growth

20 May 2026

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Residential Property

The R200,000 charge many South Africans building a home never see coming

20 May 2026

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Hospital Groups

Melanie Da Costa to take over from Dr Richard Friedland as Netcare CEO

20 May 2026

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Construction & Engineering

Solar boom exposes critical engineering workforce gap

19 May 2026