Business Day - February 03, 2023

Coal corruption is driving SA into the arms of green energy, says De Ruyter

Clean energy funding in limbo

Fix power supply or risk an uprising — Thungela CEO

Children’s futures lie abroad, say most parents

Debt fills in 33% shrinkage in real incomes

Kumba profit to take beating

Motsoaledi lays into MPs’ choices

Spurring on tourism income

Super Group has best day in years

SIGNPOST

Retail property sector looking up

Message of hope:

Ford’s latest Ranger heads for the high seas

Eskom is proving to be a big winner for bondholders

Energy funding in limbo

Work to start on biggest wind farm in SA

BD SIGNPOST

South Africans borrow to survive

$8.5bn

7.7%

7.25%

ANC ordered to release cadre files

Gauteng runs ‘surgery marathons’

Parliament names poor-quality people to boards — Motsoaledi

SA Tourism boss defends Spurs marketing tie-up

Focus on investment at indaba

Deposits: miners need to dig deeper

Companies act to secure long-term growth

Tech, drones make mines safer

Core set of values act as a miner’s ‘north star metric’

Africa to capitalise on trends

75%

75%

Digitalisation helps improve margins

ESG initiatives must ‘deliver real impact’

Kganyago spells out Reserve Bank dual mandate issue

Government ill-suited to preside over a disaster

‘Soon-to-be extinct’ cars

Cheap Chinese goods

State of disaster disasters

ANC’s inaction monopoly

Twak, ChatGPT or not

THE THIRD UMPIRE

YOUR LETTERS:

All levels of government can support private sector in ending energy crisis

Grinch that stole Christmas set to grab rate cuts too

The ANC and the art of waiting for something to turn up

Polarising figure with a spin for all occasions

Whatever the ‘stage’, the show must go on

An Oscar campaign to rival all others

Five things for you to watch this weekend

Kumba alert on profit plunge of almost half

Amplats quarterly output declines 10%

Stanlib fund buys 60% stake in Upington Solar

44%

4%

Ndlovu steps down as CEO of Remgro telecom unit CIVH

RCL interim earnings to drop as load-shedding intensifies

Super Group jumps on earnings outlook

Delays in solving energy crisis putting SA at risk

R89m

Twitter to tackle flaws spotted in Musk’s test

Retail property sector could be improving, but hard year looms

Antwerp diamond raids bring in €50m gem haul

Accelerate to sell motor retail building in Fourways for R80m

Ferrari revs up its earnings outlook

Volvo tipped to go electric on all its main models

Investors bet on ESG shift as food crisis concerns grow

Adani contagion hammers markets in India

Hong Kong on charm offensive to regain visitors

One of FTX’s bosses is out raising money for his new crypto venture

Shell makes record $40bn profit

French oil major pulls staff out of Iraq

Snag for Zara shoppers

JPMorgan plans German digital bank as a start

Goldman Sachs commodities desk strikes gold

OpenAI starts ChatGPT subscription service

Tread lightly, it’s not an easy time

TAKE A BREAK

BRIDGE

30-MINUTE CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

10-MINUTE QUICK CROSSWORD

SUDOKU

CHESS

Today’s risks shouldn’t deflect us from tackling climate crisis

PREVIOUS SOLUTION

CHESS SOLUTION:

JSE muted after wave of rate hikes

Kotzen out to beat his former boss De Kock

Canan Moodie’s meteoric rise from nowhere

Hogg back from injury in Scotland line-up

Sexton starts for Ireland

Selections

Braveheart Cian shoulders on through darkness to light

World rankings in disarray since LIV debacle, Smith says

For once, Sisulu might have a point with Spurs idea

Bavuma calls for more hostile cricket

Dyche faces daunting start with Everton

Temba joins the SA20 party with Sunrisers

Stormers to adjust to Durban humidity

Downs’ Maema braces for Pirates