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In today’s Editor's Desk, Alec Hogg pulls back the curtain on the State of the Nation address, exploring why Pretoria may finally be waking up to the neglected potential of the mining sector. We dive into the "golden straitjacket" of international capital markets that is forcing a shift in South…

Seventeen‑year‑old Thomas Weir, born in Switzerland to a South African dad, is part of the country’s largest‑ever Winter Olympics team at Milano Cortina 2026. One of just five athletes and one of two teens, he’s racing in slalom and giant slalom, proudly putting South Africa on the winter map. Raised…

In today's episode of BizNews Daybreak, President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers a "game of two halves" State of the Nation Address—promising a R1 trillion infrastructure drive while admitting water has replaced electricity as South Africa’s newest crisis. We dissect his branding of mining as a "sunrise industry" that just continues sliding…

As the world’s mining heavyweights packed Cape Town for the biggest Indaba yet, veteran mining analyst Peter Major delivered a blunt verdict: metal prices are booming, Africa is surging, but South Africa is still shackled by policy paralysis. In this Director’s Cut with Alec Hogg, Major unpacks the upbeat global…

Tonight’s Briefing moves from David Shapiro’s reaction to the Roedean–King David controversy to Peter Major’s Mining Indaba view on South Africa’s reform delays. Wayne Sussman then unpacks the political risk around Gauteng’s water crisis, before Siemens CEO Roland Busch tells Bloomberg that US data-centre demand remains strong.