Business Day - April 11, 2025

Budget office shreds VAT hike

Reminder:

Grim suicide data highlights midlife despair

Automotive sector drag on manufacturing

Anglo’s restructuring hits a snag

Health Council agrees to hire another 1,650

IOCO charts the way ahead

Lesotho to open way for Starlink

Lesotho under pressure to approve Starlink licence

Tau says Lotto ‘must not be disrupted’

Lawyers say Tau ignored Patel’s fears about transforming legal sector

New petroleum SOE begins operations after a week’s delay

VAT hike budget shredded

Production disappoints

US funding cuts could mean 150,000 more HIV infections in SA by 2028

Health Council agrees to hire 1,650 doctors, nurses

Tshwane mayor plans six of the best for capital

Consumers dive into retirement savings for day-to-day essentials

81%

R7.5bn

Hezbollah ready to talk about disarming ‘if Israel withdraws’

UAE helps with US-Russian prisoner swap

BD SIGNPOST

BD SIGNPOST

What tariff turmoil means for our small, open economy

Risks in US decoupling

Coalitions are the future

Trump’s tariff warfare

THE THIRD UMPIRE

Clean energy way to go

SA football rising

Probe public protectors

Power, politics and loot

Dearth of skills

Another decade of bailouts keeps putting the party over the people

When politics looks as if it is breaking, it actually is

Egos aplenty in race to ANC finishing line

Small-minded ANC and DA put cabinet posts over principle

UK’s move on streaming levy is music to Malatsi’s ears

A reminder of 2015’s Fallist movement a decade on

Five things to watch this week

FirstRand is set to expand in corporate banking

Co-CEO determined to grow iOCO after its first profit in three years

Anglo restructuring hits a snag

Oceana invests R29m in sector innovation fund

Cape Town surges ahead of Joburg

Prosus leads funding round for US fintech Rain

Life Healthcare achieves good activity growth

Tharisa bounces back on increase in PGM prices

Petra halts sale of gems due to tariffs

Intel chief’s Chinese holdings queried

UBS sticks to buyback plans despite turmoil

Beijing says no to Hollywood amid fallout over US tariffs

Fixed investment really is the greatest thing since sliced bread

How to navigate through Pyrrhus’ battleground

TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD

BRIDGE

30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

10-MINUTE QUICK CROSSWORD

CHESS

CHESS SOLUTION:

Top support trumps gear as Tabata bags triathlon crown

Barker praises Stellies for Zamalek victory

Echavarria wins Par 3 Contest in Masters week debut

Humiliated Real Madrid need to rally

It’s do or die for Dortmund against Bayern

Cardoso tells his team to keep eyes on the ball

Newcastle in driver’s seat for Euro spot

The Masters is far from America being great

Verstappen nipping at Norris’ heels before Bahrain

Masters king Nicklaus holds court

PSL boots Royal AM out

Sunny at the Wanderers, but no cricket