Restaurants, pubs and taverns welcome the move to Level 2 Lockdown restrictions, and the court case calling for international retail company Steinhoff to be liquidated goes ahead this week.
Sanlam issues vaccine mandate for all employees, while further afield US President Joe Biden wants to mandate all US workers to get vaccinated, and regulators in China at loggerheads with internet giant Tencent.
Stats SA changes the way it measures GDP, ICASA moves to head off a lengthy court battle with Telkom and MTN, and the markets looking shaky over concerns about slow vaccine rollouts and the economic impact of the Delta variant on many countries.
Discovery orders all staff to get vaccinated calling it a 'moral imperative', Eskom has won a 1.3 billion rand judgment against Emfuleni Municipality while the total debt owed to Eskom by municipalities now stands at a staggering R39 billion.
Aspen Pharmacare in talks with Johnson & Johnson to increase production of the COVID-19 vaccine, while some governments are considering ramping up measures to compel citizens to get vaccinated.
Eskom's debt unsustainable, the Social Development Minister withdraws controversial green paper on Social Security Reform, and SA Life Insurance settles a staggering number of death claims.
Eskom to spend billions on wind and solar energy by 2030, Business Unity South Africa elects a new president, and China introduces strict new regulations on the amount of time minors can spend playing computer games.
South Africa's economy 11% bigger than previously estimated, the USA's Delta Airlines to start charging unvaccinated employees, and Samsung blocks all TVs stolen during the recent rioting.
SA's unemployment figures the highest in the world, the Minister of Minerals and Energy pours cold water on Eskom's plans to shut some coal-fired power stations, and the markets fare relatively well.
The US Food and Drug Administration approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, this has a knock effect on the markets and could see employers exerting pressure on anti-vaxxers to get the jab.
Businesses will be opening with trepidation as threats of rioting surface on social media, the quarter labour force survey out Tuesday, as well as mining production figures.
An outcry over a proposed new social security reform plan, the UK's listing of South Africa as a red country has cost our economy billions, and the markets continue to face a 'toxic cocktail of worries'.
Transnet looking for private sector partners, Sasol slashes debt, and the Delta variant still having a huge economic impact globally.
17 Aug 2021
2 min
940 – 960
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