NEWS RELATED TO business-news

Gilead shares surge on promising Covid-19 drug report

Mining sector breathes a little more easily

Absa executives to score millions in bonuses, long-term incentive scheme reveals

SA government has not approached us, says IMF

Mantashe issues new lockdown measures for mining, energy industry

Relief fund angers BEE non-compliant business owners in KZN

Safety amped up at Ceres fruit packhouse as employee tests positive

Tiger Brands closes Albany Durban bakery after 12 staff members test positive for Covid-19

Incomplete applications hold up UIF relief

Netcare’s R450m Covid-19 fight as another hospital halts admissions

Without fanfare, Apple launches new iPhone for the budget-minded

Another massive fuel price drop awaits post-lockdown SA

EFF slams Gordhan for ‘deliberate collapse’ of SAA

Steyn family trust pours R320m into fight against Covid-19

Ballito Checkers closed after employee tests positive for Covid-19

Aveng lodges R40m claim against Eskom

Capitec enters vehicle finance market, to launch access credit

Interest rates: More cuts coming, but pensioners won’t be happy

By cutting state spending, is Mboweni cutting SA’s own throat?

EFF claims govt has ordered the reopening of North West mines

Ramaphosa responds to liquor forum’s call to relax alcohol restrictions

Mboweni predicts ‘deep recession’ for SA in 2020, with rapid rebound next year

Cell C contributes millions to lockdown digital training programme for ‘jobbers’

EFF: Tavern owners trying to murder black people with anti-booze-ban court case

Will Dis-Chem treat all landlords equally?

The ‘digital economy’ has arrived

A little tax relief for employees working from home

Business and government join up to help waste pickers with food vouchers

Oil prices push higher, but doubts grow about output cut deal

Africa

Ramaphosa appoints Trevor Manuel and three others as Covid-19 AU envoys

Restaurants trying to get takeaways back during part two of the lockdown

Alcohol industry concerned after crooks nabbed for filling bottles with dodgy booze

FirstRand group’s top bosses to donate 30% of salaries for three months

Small businesses will have to adapt or die

DA wants lockdown phased out over coming weeks to save jobs and the economy

Ramaphosa to announce another 14 days of lockdown, political parties told

Africa

Pandemic may cause Africa’s first recession in 25 years – World Bank

Spaza shops permitted to operate during lockdown irrespective of owners’ nationality

JSE to trade for benefit of Solidarity Fund

Big business left out in the cold

Markets will not slow down

KZN health dept shuts down Netcare hospital

Trucks seized by cops with millions in stock, but SAB says it’s all a misunderstanding

DA wants Agricultural Relief Fund to also help farmers with R100m annual turnover

Nedbank pledges R12m towards Covid-19 relief efforts

Motsepe and Rupert make Forbes’ 2020 billionaires list … which has shrunk

Local inventor hopes his ‘plastic cigarette’ will help smokers to quit

Netcare hospital under scrutiny as 48 staff contract coronavirus

Pick n Pay launches same-day grocery delivery

Jack Ma Foundation searches for Africa’s business heroes

More than 10,000 SMEs apply for Rupert’s R1bn

Alliance’s IMF objections might not matter

DA accuses govt departments of racialising Covid-19 relief measures

DA wants ANC to go to IMF for help

When will lockdown end? Economist says these are three possible futures for SA

Magashule and Co fear IMF bailout will loosen their ‘mafia-like grip’ on SA – Mashaba

Commercial farmers get ‘short end of stick’ again during Covid-19

Sarb foresees 370,000 initial job losses, 1,600 business insolvencies

Freeze dividends and exec bonuses, Sarb tells bankers

Decoding the Draft Disaster Management Tax Relief Bill

Santaco to announce an independent relief fund for taxi industry

Reserve Bank forsees possible 2% shrink in the economy due to coronavirus

How to order essential items for ‘contactless delivery’ on Uber Eats

How farmers can apply for share of R1.2bn in Covid-19 disaster relief

Denel to assist in building medical ventilators for Covid-19 patients

PAC: Why government should cut interest rates to zero and increase spending

Companies scramble to postpone, cancel dividends

Businesses that are winning during lockdown

Ban on cigarette sales ‘to cost govt over R1bn a month’

UPDATE: Fitch downgrades SA even more, rand continues slide

Corona beer halts brewing over coronavirus

Kumba explains why they aren’t shutting operations

Cargo ships, airfreight, port regulations relaxed for delivery of essential goods

Vodacom/Discovery partnership to allow free online Covid-19 screenings

Lockdown conundrum for auditors