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African airlines suffer higher costs, lower profit margins despite booming air traffic growth
By: Marleny Arnoldi 11th December 2025 The International Air Transport Association (IATA) expects global air passenger traffic to grow by 4.9% from five-billion passengers this year to... →
IATA forecasts that global airline profitability will stabilise next year, but Africa will lag
By: Rebecca Campbell 9th December 2025 The global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has issued its financial outlook for... →
Enhancing resilience: Climate-proofing power infrastructure
9th December 2025 Recent years have seen a surge in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events globally, causing significant casualties, displacements and... →
Unilever South Africa lifts local content to 80% as it moves to embed supply-chain resilience 
By: Terence Creamer 8th December 2025 The producer of a diverse range of well-known household brands – from Sunlight soap and OMO washing powder, to Vaseline and Robertsons Spices –... →
Cape Town’s new water projects receive in-principle approval for PPP model
By: Natasha Odendaal 5th December 2025 The procurement phase for the Faure New Water Scheme (FNWS) and Paarden Eiland Desalination Plant (PEDP) is set to start in 2026, after the City of... →
Trends shaping South Africa’s food retail and wholesale sector
4th December 2025 South Africa’s food retail and wholesale sector is one of the country’s most dynamic industries, directly linked to household consumption,... →
Hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk around Christmas and into the new year
27th November 2025 Hundreds of thousands of jobs are at risk before Christmas and into the new year. As many as 800,000 direct and indirect jobs could ultimately be... →
Organised corruption: a new threat to South Africa’s municipalities?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 14th November 2025 Some local government corruption is highly organised, and will further undermine the delivery of essential services and democratic governance. How... →
