Business Day - October 28, 2025

Numsa threatens strike amid vehicle industry pay deadlock

R1.3-trillion exports await

AI fintech Optasia gets FirstRand thumbs-up

Vodacom, MTN in call for R700 smartphone

Gold Fields nosedives

Diplomacy takes a toll

Planned tax changes ‘will harm unit trust investors’

Gilead’s HIV prevention jab approved

R1.3-trillion in exports await

Numsa threatens strike

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Chrome export tax a ‘blunt instrument’

IOCO strengthens leadership with new appointment

Magistrate’s technical error no bail lifeline for Matlala

Mistakes were ‘typos’, not sabotage — ballistics head

Milei ‘gets another chance’ after Argentinian midterm elections

India plans to double foreign ownership cap in state-owned banks

China’s ‘hairy crab’ farmers face heatwave challenges

Trump urges Putin to end Ukraine war, not test missiles

Cameroon’s Biya, 92, clinches eighth term

Trump dismisses 2028 run for vice-president

New arrest order for Istanbul’s mayor

UK optimistic on swift Gulf trade deal

UN urges Myanmar army to end violence

Israel rejects Turkish troops in Gaza plan

Three books a day and the slow death of the internet

Flowers for transport minister Creecy

Right-design nuclear is cheapest

The private sector is not the problem

THIRD UMPIRE

Home affairs best suited to deal with work visas

We have bigger problems than greylisting

Multipolar equilibrium is replacing the international order

Making poor people use grants to seek work is bad policy

How to effect structural change to fix the jobs deficit

Progress at Eskom: not patching the old but letting the new emerge

Banking on disaster

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FirstRand invests in AI fintech

Aspen targets Africa for weight-loss drug

Fundi gains new investors as demand for edufin grows

Chery considers feasibility of factory in SA amid rising demand

Naspers floats depository receipts for Prosus in Brazil

Summers is not chasing scale

Vodacom, MTN join calls for cheap smartphones

Astoria to make offer to shareholders

HSBC to take $1.1bn hit in Madoff case

Amazon helps Indian exports top $20bn despite US tariffs

The long and labyrinthine road to reparations for African slavery

SA women ready for old foes in semi

Proteas have India in a spin over pitches

Boks hyped up Rassie —

Norris ignores jeers after win in Mexico

Bavuma back for India Tests