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SA’s population ‘may well exceed 95-million’
'Rigorous' analysis suggests huge undercount in official number, fibre company says
TIISETSO MOTSOENENG: Sars v Sasfin pits fiscal recovery against systemic risk
Ruling could allow tax agency to force banks to shoulder financial responsibility for customers’ illegal activity
BRIEFING ROOM: Raids, revelations, 3% levy and AI test
Big ambitions are running headlong with weak oversight, and this week's dispatch shows how that mismatch will decide whether policy becomes progress or another headline.
TIISETSO MOTSOENENG: Buying BEE status or building black enterprise?
Plan to let unlisted companies purchase broad-based BEE rating ticks many boxes
Government mulls 3% levy on private firms to buy BEE status
Transformation Fund could raise R40bn a year and grant automatic level-3 BEE status to contributors
TIISETSO MOTSOENENG: Use BEE to build markets instead of fighting over quotas
The goal should be getting black South Africans steady salaries, real contracts and routes into skilled work
Revolut eyes SA as first African market in $13bn global push
Neobank’s arrival in SA poses a direct challenge to incumbents in foreign exchange, remittances and cards
Basa warns of ‘dangerous precedent’ after Tau’s credit act U-turn
Influential business lobby groups say the move, driven by political pressure and misinformation, undermines trust and blocks urgent efforts to close the SME credit gap
TIISETSO MOTSOENENG: The Mouton Doctrine packs lessons for SA’s ultra-rich
Capital, when yoked to purpose, can rewire entire sectors, but only if it resists the centripetal pull of reputation, insularity and tokenistic access
BRIEFING ROOM: Presidency paralysis, legal blitz and farewell to Tshidi Madia
From healthcare to energy, the cost of policy miscalculation deepens
