Opinion

South Africa is on track for a record-breaking 2025/2026 summer grain and oilseed harvest, with estimates pointing to 20.8Mt — the largest crop yet recorded in South Africa.

The competition bureaucracy couldn’t simply make everyone happy by raising the filing thresholds for mergers – it had to go and force companies into employee share ownership programmes

Southern Sun reported a sparkling trading update, while Coca-Cola HBC's €1.4bn deal to take over Coca-Cola Beverages Africa is set to create an emerging markets juggernaut

Describing Blu Label as a ‘mature, low-growth’ business fails to recognise the group’s move towards extracting increasing value from an already scaled transactional network.

A policy tends to bind. A guideline offers direction but allows interpretation. It invites judgment and flexibility. This raises real concerns about accountability, writes Just Share’s Nicole Martens.

Why have Cyril Ramaphosa’s critics not asked the courts to review the reports that cleared him?

Sasol now offers high operational leverage to the oil price, limited direct Middle East exposure, as well as comparatively low risk of government intervention in South Africa.

There's plenty of room for dreamers on the transport department train, but whether the draft national rail master plan will get them to their destination is questionable at best

Roy Bagattini, the CEO of Woolworths, believes the escalating furore over its role in plunging chocolatier Beyers into liquidation is deeply unfair.

‘What did he know and when did he know it?’ The famous question about US president Richard Nixon and the burglary at the Democratic Party’s Watergate HQ is useful in considering President Cyril Ramaphosa and the buffalo bills.

South Africa's future cannot depend on one man. This is emphasised when we look for ANC leaders to succeed Cyril Ramaphosa but find an alarming scarcity.

The South African agricultural sector continues to create more jobs. In the first quarter of 2026, farm jobs increased 3% from the same period a year earlier to 960,000 — up 1% from the last quarter of 2025.

Agricultural machinery sales remain robust in South Africa, supported by orders some farmers likely placed before the current global challenges.

Given that South Africa is a relatively small open economy that imports almost all of its oil, oil price shocks have a significant impact on local conditions.

Delistings from the JSE are hardly cause for celebration. But at least when a delisting is done in a dignified manner, investors might toast a small victory.