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The quiet collapse behind SA’s food price surge
By Wesley Niemann of the Department of Business Management at the University of Pretoria Modern food systems are extraordinarily dependent on logistics. A loaf of bread moves through a complex network of farmers, processors, packaging suppliers, warehouses, distributors, transport operators, ports, retailers and energy systems. When one part of that chain weakens, costs rise throughout
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Riding the oil roller coaster — how high will petrol prices soar this time? With crude oil prices potentially reaching historical highs due to unprecedented market shocks, analysts forecast demand destruction as a response to soaring costs and dwindling supplies. By Lindsey Schutters In normal times, cutting the global oil supply by 1% translates to a
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Polyco’s EPR efforts deliver 544% boost in plastic recycling in South Africa
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Storage tariffs have reset the system-cost conversation
The fourth storage window closed 31% below the 2024 benchmark. That is large enough to change the merit-order argument, not just the procurement spreadsheet. If the next window holds near th…
Non-revenue water is a governance indicator, not a plumbing one
A third of reporting municipalities now lose more than 47% of treated water before it reaches a paying customer. Treating that as a pipe problem misreads it. The municipalities that have red…
Disclosure deadlines will bite through data lineage, not ambition
Most JSE mid-caps we reviewed can describe their transition plan. Far fewer can trace a reported figure back to a source system in a way an assurance provider will accept. That gap is a syst…
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