Katharine Gemmell and Paul-Alain Hunt, Bloomberg on 08/07/2026

BHP workers to strike at world’s top iron ore export port

Will stage an eight-hour strike on July 16, unions said, escalating tensions with the mining giant and potentially putting some supply at risk.

K Katharine Gemmell and Paul-Alain Hunt, Bloomberg
Jimmy Moyaha on 07/07/2026

Treasury tightens public purse on red-flagged municipalities

Warnings issued and ignored, leading to action ‘unprecedented in the existence of the local government system in the country’ – with 70 municipalities given 120 days to earn the release of their equitable share grants. Professor Samuel Koma from the University of Limpopo fills us in.

J Jimmy Moyaha