Moneyweb@Midday

[TOP STORY] Municipalities are making residents pay for their failures

‘It's tantamount to treason if you steal from the poor or if you are at work, but not at work,’ says Dr Harlan Cloete, Centre for Gender and Africa Studies at the University of the Free State.

21 Aug 6AM 7 min

Joburg’s collapse is becoming a national crisis

Paying R3 000 more on monthly municipal bills, the cost of broken municipalities. Why women feel let down by government, banks and healthcare. And the inspirational story behind Yuppie Chef.

21 Aug 6AM 35 min

[TOP STORY] When does a political interest become a conflict of interest?

‘In this case, I can definitely see that there is a potential for a conflict of interest. If not an actual conflict, then at least a perceived conflict,’ says Kris Dobie, executive at The Ethics Institute.

20 Aug 9AM 6 min

SA won’t run dry, says deputy minister, but your taps still might …

The higher the office, the higher the ethical bar. DA’s Burke U-turn puts political ethics in the spotlight. A rare break for consumers as food inflation tumbles to 16-year low. And Cape Town’s new pitch to investors: Help build affordable housing.

20 Aug 6AM 32 min

[TOP STORY] How Zelda la Grange fell for a sophisticated phone scam

‘When he asked me to go into the banking app, he also said to me, remember, Vodacom will never ask for your personal details or login details. So you are at ease,’ says the former aide to Nelson Mandela.

19 Aug 9AM 8 min

Competition concerns loom over Harith’s FlySafair deal

Zelda la Grange shares how she fell victim to a scam despite believing she should have known better. Does the SADC’s integration ambitions deliver real economic results? And a look at where SA’s wealth is being made.

19 Aug 6AM 34 min

[TOP STORY] Sars is closing in on crypto traders’ tax affairs

‘The more data in the reporting framework that I have from these platforms, as the revenue authority, the more I can make a better determination of exactly where you're playing,’ says Mohammed Mayet, director and head of tax at HLB CBS Group.

18 Aug 8AM 8 min

Property power shifts as more women take ownership

SA’s poultry industry battles a flood of cheap, imported chicken and can businesses defend their crypto numbers?

18 Aug 6AM 33 min

[TOP STORY] Cape Town still leads the jobs race – what eThekwini can learn

‘What we see with the quarterly labour force statistics is that Cape Town does perform consistently better than the other metros,’ says Justin Visagie, associate professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies.

17 Aug 8AM 8 min

How do you lose 47% of a country's water?

SA sends Africa the bill for migrant repatriations. Absa takes financial literacy to TikTok. And eThekwini emerges as SA’s employment powerhouse.

17 Aug 6AM 32 min

[TOP STORY] SA’s abandoned mines expose costly failures in regulation and accountability

‘I have yet to see the government prosecuting a large-scale company for walking away from a mine,’ says David van Wyk, mining analyst and researcher at the Benchmarks Foundation.

14 Aug 9AM 8 min

Who should control SA's medicine supply?

Who should control SA's medicine supply? Boards could be held liable for rubber stamping excessive paycheques under Companies Act.

14 Aug 6AM 36 min

[TOP STORY] Investment plunge exposes growing uncertainty over SA’s economic outlook

‘The investment drive is underpinned by investment by the private sector and not necessarily by the public sector…that's where the issue of confidence lies,’ says Isaah Mhlanga, chief economist at RMB.

13 Aug 9AM 8 min

Union takes on Ramaphosa over Eskom shake-up

R580bn setback piles pressure on government finances as investment projects plummet in first half of 2026. What Zondo and Madlanga taught us about hiring the wrong people.

13 Aug 6AM 35 min

[TOP STORY] Tax change could hit South Africans with spouses living abroad

‘It can have a negative impact on those ordinary South Africans, even though they are targeting wealthy taxpayers who are trying to use a loophole,’ says Reinert van Rensburg, tax attorney at Leap Group.

12 Aug 8AM 8 min

The organisation protecting whistleblowers may shut its doors

Minister Creecy on Cape Town port improvements aimed at protecting billions in fruit exports. And why tax-free transfers between spouses are under threat.

12 Aug 6AM 34 min

[TOP STORY] SA’s tax revolt is already underway, says economist

‘People are really getting quite aggressive when it comes to tax planning. We know what happened to the toll roads, that's a very good example where people simply stop paying the tolls,’ says Dawie Roodt, chief economist at Efficient Group.

11 Aug 10AM 7 min

Trust trumps horsepower for female car buyers

Is South Africa nearing a tax revolt? A new digital location system set to transform services. And the science behind performing under pressure.

11 Aug 6AM 34 min

[TOP STORY] Why SA’s hotels are struggling despite recovering demand

‘South African tourism has been dysfunctional for too many years now. It doesn't seem to be a priority of anyone to get that fixed,’ says Anton Gillis, CEO of Platinum Hospitality Holdings.

7 Aug 7AM 7 min

Family at the centre of alleged Club Med rape case speaks

Procurement could make or break SA’s infrastructure drive. SA hotels are filling up, but the boom isn’t boosting the bottom line. And Joburg's street food shines on the world stage.

7 Aug 6AM 32 min