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MARIUS REITZ: South Africa can be the continent’s crypto gateway

But it has to get the rules right

MICHAEL AVERY: Payments reform faces SIM card fraud test

The future of payments depends on getting identity right

South Africa economy turnaround. Pexels / Sherissa; Rawpixel; Currency

MICHAEL AVERY: How to get the economy growing

How to unleash South Africa's potential

STUART THEOBALD: Why South Africa is still paying the price for greylisting

Our laws are in place. We need prosecutions

How AI-driven data can backfire

Technology’s harm must be avoided so benefits remain

Premier Foods in Tulbagh canning plant closure
Images: Rawpixel/FM

Competition Commission wants Premier, Rhodes merger approval scrapped after Tulbagh plant shutdown

The unprecedented step has rattled Premier shareholders

Wicknell Chivayo

MICHAEL MARCHANT: The mystery of the greylist and the Zimbabwean billionaire

The South African probe into R5bn in assets must not stall

STUART THEOBALD: Hitting the board tenure sweet spot

How long is too long for an independent director?

Audio

PODCAST: The case for cheaper, more open payments

A conversation about reshaping South Africa’s payments ecosystem

‘Independent’ wealth advice is becoming a marketing label

The pool of genuinely independent wealth advice in South Africa is shrinking

Fake token. Rawpixel/Currency

CHRISTO DE WIT: Lessons in clarity for South Africa’s regulators

South Africa's urgent need for parliamentary clarity on crypto regulation

Crypto’s Clarity Act is dead. Long live crypto

Why US regulators, not Congress, revived crypto

Solar row hots up as Eskom waiver nears end

Eskom, Outa clash over registration rules

Alexa, what’s an existential crisis?

AI mavens are saying their baby might kill us all

Closed doors as Premier shuts out shareholders

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

A sign at the Rent Control Group meeting in Cape Town last month

Cape Town’s Airbnb showdown

Housing activists campaign for stronger restrictions

Africa Bitcoin Corporation’s Warren Wheatley. Picture: Supplied.

Behind the ructions at Africa’s first Bitcoin treasury firm 

Regulator hits founders with thumping sanctions and debars them for 20-years

Video

PODCAST: How SA’s competition authorities are throttling investment

Is South Africa’s unique anti-trust regime stifling investment and throttling business?

Financial Mail - 3 September 2026

An in-depth look at why competition watchdogs and regulators are facing an escalating crisis of credibility

Anti trust: How South Africa’s inept competition authorities are throttling business

Competition watchdogs face a crisis of credibility