SA's economy needs stronger consumer demand

‘I am meeting weekly with the intervention team because I am fully aware of the risks that are involved in this situation and the need to resolve it appropriately and speedily,’ says the Minister of Transport.

As Ebrahim Rasool returns to home soil after being booted from the USA, we ask if the ambassador overstepped diplomatic boundaries? The potential impact of a rate cut on the property industry. And new research suggests that Rooibos could protect petrol attendants from harmful petrochemical exposure.

‘There are masterful insights that can be used to be able to identify a perpetrator and that's what this initiative was about, leveraging the access to information we all have,’ says Nischal Mewalall, CEO of the South African Banking Risk Information Centre.

A new report shows shifting consumer behaviour in a cautiously optimistic economic landscape. Will a R460m off-season maintenance plan give the sugar industry a much-needed boost? And growing concerns around municipal negligence in flood-stricken KZN.

‘One can concede that the ground was certainly not fertile for the kinds of comments that were made because already there were issues that were bubbling on the surface that needed to be addressed,’ says presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya.