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Inflation looks contained. But just wait …

March CPI rose to 3.1%, within the SARB’s 3% target band, but the Iran conflict’s oil price shock is set to push April inflation sharply higher

Israeli security forces and rescue teams work amid the rubble of a residential building struck by an Iranian missile in Haifa, Israel, Sunday, April 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Trump gives Iran till Tuesday to open Hormuz

US President Donald Trump issued an expletive-filled threat against Iran as details of US aviator’s rescue emerge

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Monday, March 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Iran: the strategic winners and losers, so far

Who’s likely to benefit in the US-Iran war? Greg Mills and Ray Hartley analyse the balance sheet

FILE – Ships sail through the Arabian Gulf toward the Strait of Hormuz as the sun sets in the United Arab Emirates Monday, March 23, 2026. (AP Photo, File)

‘Go get your own oil’,  Trump tells allies

US President Donald Trump has lashed out at allies, saying that securing the Strait of Hormuz is ‘not for us’

Smoke rises from Kuwait international airport after a drone strike on fuel storage in Kuwait City, Kuwait, Friday, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo)

Trump threatens ‘obliteration’ if deal not reached ‘shortly’

Though he says ‘great progress’ is being made in talks, the US president has also threatened widespread destruction if a deal is not reached ‘shortly’

Displaced people who fled Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon sit inside tents used as shelters as a rainbow breaks through the rain in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, March 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Pakistan says it will host US-Iran talks

The South Asian country says it is set to host discussions between the US and Iran to end the war

Pro-government supporters wave Iranian flags during a rally in a square in western Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

US’s ‘new’ 15‑point plan is a sign that it fears it is losing the war

The US and Israel may win battles. But they may be losing the war that matters: legitimacy, stability and long-term influence

An Israeli warplane flies over the city of Tyre, south Lebanon, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Iran denies war talks despite Trump’s claims

Iran has rejected a US ceasefire plan and issued its own demands as strikes land across the Middle East

Iran investing. Hormuz. Rawpixel/Currency collage

What history says about investing during the Iran war

The Iran conflict has rippled through commodity, currency and equity markets. But the biggest risk for investors is not war, but how they respond

Smoke billows following an Iranian missile strike in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Trump offers 15-point ceasefire plan to Iran

The US has submitted a ceasefire plan as it prepares to send an additional 1,000 troops to the Middle East

President Donald Trump speaks with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a roundtable discussion on public safety at a Tennessee Air National Guard Base, Monday, March 23, 2026, in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump stays strikes on Iran on back of ‘talks’

Trump says US and Iran are talking. His claim is eliciting market cheers and plenty of scepticism

Iran and markets. Spencer Platt/Getty Images/Rawpixel/Currency collage

South Africans rue gold’s plunge — and it could get a heap worse 

Global markets – aside from gold and PGMs – have been hardly rattled by the Gulf conflict. Should peace not break out, that could change

Missiles launched from Iran streak across the sky over central Israel, early Monday, March 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Iran threatens infrastructure strikes in face of Trump ultimatum

Israel has launched a new wave of attacks on Tehran as Iran threatens to start hitting Gulf power and desalination plants

South Africa safe space. Pexels-Blaque / ChatGPT / Currency collage

Flee to ‘safe’ South Africa when Trump catches ‘feelings’

As Donald Trump starts a war on ‘a feeling’, the world is looking increasingly unstable. Luckily South Africa is a safe haven. Or is it?

Plumes of smoke and fire rise after debris from an intercepted Iranian drone struck an oil facility, according to authorities, in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

What if Trump is (annoyingly) right?

Trump’s Iran war looks reckless. But if Tehran’s military and proxy powers are being systematically weakened, his critics may be missing something

FILE–This March 16, 2019 file photo, shows a natural gas refinery at the South Pars gas field on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf, in Asaluyeh, Iran. China’s state oil company has pulled out of a $5 billion deal to develop a portion of Iran’s massive offshore natural gas field, the Islamic Republic’s oil minister said Sunday, Oct. 6, 2019, an agreement from which France’s Total SA earlier withdrew over U.S. sanctions. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Gulf energy facilities under increased fire in Iran war

Tehran has intensified its attacks on Gulf energy facilities after Israel hit Iran’s critical South Pars gas field

Volunteers clean debris from a residential building damaged when a nearby police station was hit Friday in a U.S.-Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran strikes Israel, Gulf states as top officials killed

Israel has killed two top Iranian security officials, prompting the Islamic Republic to release a barrage of missiles in response

Fire and plumes of smoke rises after a drone struck a fuel tank forcing the temporary suspension of flights. near Dubai International Airport, in United Arab Emirates, early Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo)

Explosions sound over Dubai as UAE briefly closes airspace

United Arab Emirates briefly closes airspace as Israel strikes Lebanon and Tehran in the ongoing Iran war

Arms regulator in trouble. Rawpixel/Currency collage

South Africa’s arms export regulator sleeps, as world goes to war

A crisis at the NCACC heightens the risk that South Africa will export weapons without proper scrutiny, in violation of its international legal obligations

Israeli air defense system fires to intercept missiles during an Iranian attack over Tel Aviv, Israel, early Sunday, March 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Trump looks to break Iran’s Hormuz stranglehold

Iran hits Gulf neighbours and keeps stranglehold on oil shipping as concerns rise of energy crisis