Duduzile Ramela on 21/04/2026

Policymakers take ‘preferential’ out of public procurement

‘The biggest change is that we will have a lawful set-aside regime instead of a preferential regime. So it's an upfront filter, which of course is a much stricter, harder approach, really forcing entities that apply to [supply] the state to comply with BEE upfront’ – Geo Quinot, Professor of Public

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Antony Sguazzin, Bloomberg on 21/04/2026

France in talks to lend South Africa R1.65bn for cities

In April last year, the Treasury said it would ask global development finance institutions including France’s state-owned Agence Française de Développement to augment World Bank funding.

A Antony Sguazzin, Bloomberg
Duduzile Ramela on 21/04/2026

The sooner we hike, the less we have to hike

Gina Schoeman - Chief Economist, Citi South Africa on the whether government can afford to extend fuel subsidy and how the under-recovery may hit consumers hardest should the subsidy lifts

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Ryk van Niekerk on 21/04/2026

Die mynboujeug boesem nie vertroue in die toekoms in nie

Dr. Manie Kriel, adjunkvoorsitter van die Suidelike Afrikaanse Instituut vir Mynbou en Metallurgie en raadgewende uitvoerende hoof van VBKOM, gesels oor die onlangse verslag van die Mineraleraad.

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