Here are five important finance and investing stories happening in South Africa and globally on Thursday, 8 October 2026.

Woolworths has cleared all regulatory hurdles to acquire 100% of In2food, one of the retailer’s key suppliers for the past ...

The High Court set aside Minister Parks Tau's decision to promulgate new prescribed racial quotas for the legal sector.

SA Canegrowers has called for the South African government to scrap the Health Promotion Levy, also known as the "sugar tax", to aid the struggling sugar industry.

City Power fails to pay Eskom R3 billion to R4 billion in electricity every year due to its mismanaged billing system and ...

Premier Group has rejected the Competition Commission’s claim that its closure of a fruit-canning plant in Tulbagh violated ...

Airlink expects a substantial increase in revenue this fiscal year as new deliveries of Embraer jets enable its expansion ...

The expansion of Capitec’s stokvel offering will see the company step on FNB’s toes in the coming years. The two South ...

SARS has challenged several years of a South African employer’s ETI claims, leaving it with an adjusted tax liability of R13 million.

The Drakenstein Local Municipality has been voted the 5th best in the country in terms of its finances, an improvement from ...

Postbank has put in a funding request from the National Treasury for a R2.5 billion injection, which it needs to transition ...