Energy & ESG

Roy Bagattini and Pieter Engelbrecht

How Shoprite and Woolies CEOs made bank

Lacklustre competition helped deliver a bumper pay package

How AI-driven data can backfire

Technology’s harm must be avoided so benefits remain

Power lines above homes in Shalazile, Joburg, where residents say reliable electricity means families can light their homes, cook, use fridges and iron their children’s school clothes.

Solar to light the way for Joburg’s informal settlements

The city has a R517.8m solar-powered microgrid solution

Nersa’s secrecy problem

Nersa approves huge discounts for big industrial users

Closed doors as Premier shuts out shareholders

The food group may find itself in hot water over its AGM

(Non-extinct) Siberian cranes.

Why a doomed curlew rings alarm bells for the planet

Rising threat to the world’s greatest wanderers

When capital meets impact

Private capital can deliver both return and impact

Picture: Rawpixel/FM collage

Takealot’s driver army: a labour issue to be reckoned with 

Dramatic changes for firms reliant on the gig economy are coming

Inside Jonathan Jansen’s fight to fix our schools 

Schools need more community support and less government red tape

Phone gambling. Rawpixel/Currency collage

South Africa’s gambling boom and the responsibilities of capital 

For investors, the betting industry should ring ESG alarm bells

A sign advertising the annual Hopefield Fynbos Show welcomes visitors to the small West Coast town, where the festival draws thousands of tourists to a region recognised for its exceptional fynbos biodiversity. Photo: Barry Christianson

When green hydrogen looks less than green

A R47bn project in Hopefield will test fynbos and water systems

Future disconnect: The digital divide in South Africa’s energy minerals boom 

Mining communities are being left behind by the data centre rush

Wage gap CEO pay. Rawpixel/Currency

High to low: how big is Prosus’s wage gap really? 

The CEO-to-worker gap looks fairly modest, until you factor in the exclusion of Prosus’s all-important delivery drivers

AGM. Image by Currency News

Capitec’s chair shoots down questions in another aggressive AGM

The catering outshone the governance at Capitec’s AGM, unlike Ninety One’s more informative shareholder meeting

Umoyilanga will operate as one of South Africa’s first virtual power plants, combining solar, wind and battery storage across two sites 900km apart to deliver reliable, dispatchable electricity to the national grid. Photo: EDF power solutions/Oxpeckers

Rooftop solar: South Africa’s next power station?

South Africans’ backup power systems could become giant virtual power plants – if regulators clear the way

JSE Zipped. Rawpixel/Currency

JSE fights order to disclose investor information

A legal battle over investor information is back in the spotlight, with Africa’s largest stock exchange at the centre of the fight

Solar farm. photo: Ihsaan Haffejee / Oxpeckers

Beyond the build: green jobs in South Africa’s renewables industry

South Africa’s green transition is creating jobs, but lasting employment depends on manufacturing, localisation and new industries