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JSE outcry system. Photographer GraemeWilliams/South/Gallo; Rawpixel; Currency collage

Bye-bye outcry: 30 years since the pandemonium ended

The weaknesses of the open outcry system were legion, but so was the exhilaration. David Shapiro looks back on a long-gone JSE rite of passage

Board directors. Rawpixel/Currency collage

Insurers and courts – coming for a board near you  

‘Weather attributions science’ sounds futuristic – but it could see insurers and courts enforce until-now formulaic board decisions on ESG

Sasol’s Secunda plant. Picture: Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images

Shrewd on crude? Riding the Sasol seesaw

Sasol shares are up 50%, to R215, since the start of the war. A year ago they were trading at less than R60. What’s the prognosis?

Greenwashing regulation. Getty / Rawpixel / Currency collage

South Africa’s big crackdown on greenwashing

The financial sector regulator plans to close the loopholes on greenwashing both in advertising and in companies’ climate disclosures

Joburg air pollution. Pexels / Sherissa / Rawpixel / Currency collage

Where’s the big stink over the air pollution problem?

Joburg was last week subjected to a rotten-eggs stench that is all too familiar. The company on the spot says its emissions are ‘within normal parameters’

Sasol. Picture: Currency.

From hot start to hot mess: Sasol’s big reversal

The market’s not cutting Sasol much slack after a lacklustre production update, but some argue there’s still plenty of cash to be made on the stock

How Sasol went rogue on its climate ‘plans’

Has Sasol gone rogue? And more importantly, do its major shareholders even care? On Friday, the petrochemical giant endured another tense AGM – though, at one hour and 27…