WHY TOWNSHIP MALLS THRIVE Township retail centres are flourishing, according to Nedbank, despite high living costs and interest rates. The success is driven by the following: Demographic Concentration: Townships are densely populated areas, often housing a significant

According to the World Inequality Database, to be in South Africa’s top 1%, an individual needs to earn approximately R1.95 million per year, which equates to about R162,300 per month.

“Though it is ANC tradition that the deputy president should ascend to the position of party president, Paul Mashatile appears to be receiving a lot of pushback, with exposés on his previous flashy lifestyle coming back to haunt him. These could destabilise his ambitions.”

“IFP leader Velenkosini Hlabisa appears to be a focused man — unmoved by the noise and turmoil around the government of national unity (GNU).”

“Your team impacts your organisation’s reputation. Which ultimately impacts whether people want to do business with you or not.”

The South African Local Government Association (Salga) estimates that municipalities are collectively losing more than R8.6 billion a year in revenue from fraudulent prepaid electricity meters.

“The contested terrain of women’s bodies marks an alarming Trump return to conservatism rooted in the destructive ideology of patriarchy and capitalism that sees women merely as possessions to be bent to men’s will as a form of societal control and ordering.”

The world we were prepared for is no longer the same. Adapt.

The Johannesburg high court has ruled that the VIP protection afforded by the Johannesburg city council to its key officials is unconstitutional and unlawful.

BOARD CHAIR APPOINTMENT The Unisa Graduate School of Business Leadership (SBL) has appointed Unathi Mtya as the new chairperson of its advisory board. Unathi brings over 25 years of leadership experience in both business and technology. She has held prominent roles such as

“The new parliamentary session opens in the shadow of a world gone mad, with a US president playing the politics of vengeance and SA facing the revenge of a bunch of émigré white racists led by Elon Musk.”

“The decision to offer Afrikaners asylum in the US is an insult to the real victims of racial and economic discrimination, South Africa’s Black majority, who have suffered generations of dispossession. Afrikaners are not victims; they control significant economic resources.”

South Africa must document its history properly, or we risk people even denying apartheid ever happened. We need more documentaries and demographic data—without them, we leave the narrative to those with influence to shape the country as they see fit.

Never waste a good crisis Where there's chaos, there's opportunity

“This week we saw 14 South African soldiers brought home in flag-draped coffins aboard a Tanzanian aircraft — our own military so utterly destitute we couldn’t put one of our own in the air.”

Ithala granted cash loans to 267 clients under the age of 18.

"Absa’s leadership instability has been a lesson in how not to run a bank. Six CEOs in as many years. That’s not a track record, it’s a crisis. The constant reshuffling has left employees disorientated, investors anxious and, in all likelihood, regulators raising their eyebrows."

Research published in the Harvard Business Review estimates that up to 90% of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) worldwide fail.

ITHALA HAS BEEN ALLOCATED R2 BILLION A dispute is brewing between Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana and the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government over how to repay Ithala Bank’s 220,000 trapped depositors. Ithala, facing possible liquidation, has left customers unable to access