[TOP STORY] The debt trap threats of extended finance

‘You can't have a situation where 16% of the South African economy is incorrect as a result of a dispute that can be easily resolved,’ says the Minister of Electricity and Energy.

Today - why so many South Africans want to quit their jobs. How modernisation of the VAT system can help boost the economy. And the state of the retail nation - what is driving consumer confidence?

‘It's hard enough to manage our own biases but certainly we are nowhere near the point where we let the machines loose on making decisions,’ says Peter van der Ross, deputy head of multi-asset and portfolio management at STANLIB.

Today, is being part of the government of national unity helping or hindering political party support? It is World Diabetes Day. We take a look at the true cost of the crisis on the South African health sector and how student debts are impacting job prospects for young people.

‘Hopefully we will get a resolution by that date, and we will see the reports, which actually are put out by the independent experts, because everyone wants to know, and everyone has a right to know what's really going on here,’ says Chantelle Gladwin-Wood, partner in the public law department…