Moneyweb@Midday

Mpox: SA records first death

A round-up of news updates, including analysis of the MK party's challenge of election results, the health department on mpox outbreak and man finishes comrades marathon barefoot.

12 Jun 2024 6AM 33 min

[TOP STORY] City of Joburg’s plan to minimise need for load reduction

‘Load reduction is the last resort on the part of the city, we need to ensure that we deploy other mechanisms that will relieve the pressure and those measures would obviously have to do with the illegal connections and the cuts that we will be doing,’ says City of Johannesburg…

11 Jun 2024 9AM 5 min

Parliament ready to proceed with the first sitting

A summary of news updates: Parliament addresses the MK party's planned boycott, the PA initiates talks, and a rise in kidnappings in SA.

11 Jun 2024 6AM 32 min

[TOP STORY] Iraj Abedian outlines policy priorities for the GNU

‘Given that our economy has been neglected for at least 15 years and at times damaged consciously, actively, and that means the last thing, literally the very last thing that this economy can manage is instability of policy,’ says the CEO of Pan-African Investment and Research Services.

10 Jun 2024 9AM 7 min

Cosatu: Rights of workers must be protected

A round-up of news updates, including ActionSA leaves multi-party charter, the economic impact of GNU and Cosatu on political landscape for workers.

10 Jun 2024 6AM 30 min

[TOP STORY] MoneywebAtMidday

Guest: Roelf Meyer, politician and businessman

7 Jun 2024 7AM 6 min

'The real debate will be about how to get the economy off the ground'

A round-up of news updates, including the ANC's proposal of a government of national unity, MK to engage the ANC and thousands to participate in the ultimate human race

7 Jun 2024 6AM 34 min

[TOP STORY] Mitigating severe weather risk with insurance

‘You accumulate more assets, and you find that because you don't do a spring-cleaning exercise every year, there are certain things you don't include in your insurance policy and during claim time, you find that you are underinsured,’ says Thabo Mabaso, head of corporate communications at Santam Insurance.

6 Jun 2024 9AM 5 min

There's a direct link between the EC, KZN floods and climate change

A round-up of news updates, including Minister Zizi Kodwa's resignation and the surge in insurance claims following the recent floods in parts of the country.

6 Jun 2024 6AM 31 min

[TOP STORY] Second-hand vehicle imports having detrimental effect on SA

‘We've seen syndicates taking advantage of that particular gap, where they bring in vehicles that are documented to go to Lesotho, but they obviously end up on South African roads,’ says Mikel Mabasa, CEO of Naamsa.

5 Jun 2024 9AM 6 min

KZN storm: Officials tallying cost of infrastructure damage.

A round-up of news updates, including the government’s response to disasters in EC and KZN and high cost of new vehicle sales in SA.

5 Jun 2024 6AM 35 min

[TOP STORY] DA says formal coalition talks may start on Thursday

‘The best option is that the Constitutionalists find each other, that they reach out and they form a bulwalk against the march of the anti-constitutionalists in South Africa,’ says John Steenhuisen, leader of the Democratic Alliance.

4 Jun 2024 10AM 10 min

Storms wreak havoc in the Eastern Cape and KZN

A round-up of news updates, including an update on the floods in Nelson Mandela Bay and the DA on coalition talks.

4 Jun 2024 6AM 32 min

[TOP STORY] IEC confirms technical glitches had no impact on final result

‘In both instances, I want to be very categorical that it wasn't failure of technology that we placed the reliance on to determine the outcome of the election,’ says IEC chair, Mosotho Moepya.

3 Jun 2024 9AM 7 min

'The ANC will be looking to save itself'

A round-up of news updates, including political analysis on elections 2024, business's reaction to the results, and a survey on public trust in the elections.

3 Jun 2024 6AM 32 min

[TOP STORY] ANC preparing to consider ‘progressive’ coalition partners

‘We are looking forward to the continuation of the democratic project and the ANC working with other parties that are like-minded, that are focused on securing democracy that we've achieved over the 30 years,’ says ANC spokesperson, Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri.

31 May 2024 9AM 6 min

'Political parties must consider the economy when forming coalitions'

The ANC on what has gone wrong and where to from here, and how to navigate a new, uncertain investment climate.

31 May 2024 6AM 32 min

[TOP STORY] IEC aiming to provide 80% of result by Thursday night

‘As we speak, 14% of the results have been completed and that represents about 1.2 million votes. Traditionally by Thursday, we are ordinarily at about 80% to 90% of the result completed,’ says Masego Sheburi, IEC deputy chief electoral officer.

30 May 2024 9AM 6 min

'Small businesses should be funded like social grants'

With the high voter turnout, did the IEC perform well on election day? What a new cabinet can learn from well-functioning boards.

30 May 2024 6AM 33 min

[TOP STORY] Permutations for SA’s possible coalition government

‘If the ANC does drop to below 50%, this will be a watershed election for South Africa. It will change the way we view politics and change the way our political parties form alliances,’ says Daniel Silke, director of the Political Futures Consultancy.

28 May 2024 9AM 6 min