Mini-budget 2026: Debt has peaked, but growth hasn’t arrived — what Godongwana’s MTBPS means for property
October 27 2026 09:30 Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s 2026 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement confirmed a milestone South Africa has waited more than 15 years for: government debt has stopped rising. But with growth downgraded, interest rates climbing and fuel prices at record highs, property investors, landlords and homeowners will need to look beyond the headline. […]
InTouch beats the FIC’s own sanctions alert by almost 10 hours
October 22 2026 17:53 A South African compliance platform had re-screened its clients’ entire books against Friday’s UN sanctions amendments at 06:02. The regulator’s update email followed at 15:52. JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA On Friday, 16 October 2026, accountable institutions using InTouch’s Continuous TFS Screening started their working day with their entire client base already re-screened […]
Chris Seabrooke’s R204m Sabvest share gift to fuel Wits’ R341m Braamfontein cultural precinct
October 19 2026 13:35 Picture supplied by the University of the Witwatersrand Sabvest Capital CEO Chris Seabrooke has made one of the largest private gifts to a South African university in history, handing over JSE-listed shares worth about R204.4m to fund a new arts and culture precinct at Wits University in Braamfontein. The gift, from […]
Joburg property owners have until 30 November to object to the City’s latest supplementary valuation roll
October 16 2026 16:00 JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Johannesburg property owners have just over six weeks to check whether the City has their property’s value right. The City of Johannesburg has opened Supplementary Valuation Roll 4 (SVR4) for the 2026/2027 financial year for public inspection, from 14 October 2026 until 30 November 2026. The objection window […]
Property Flash week in review: Results shine, Tongaat bows out and Joburg’s vote looms large
October 16 2026 13:10 SOUTH AFRICA If one theme ran through the stories Property Flash published this week, it was the gap between the health of South Africa’s listed property sector and the state of the cities it operates in. Reits are reporting their best numbers in years, while Johannesburg heads into a municipal election […]
Exchange Control changes in play, now what?
October 15 2026 12:30 JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA A guest article by Bashier Adam, Tax Director, Nexia SAB&T Most financially active South Africans know the basics: the Single Discretionary Allowance (SDA) doubled to R2m in April, trust-to-trust offshore distributions are now permissible, and other thresholds moved. The Reserve Bank issued nine circulars on 8 April 2026. […]
REVIEW OF THE SA ECONOMY AND THE UPCOMING MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
October 12 2026 18:00 Guest article by Bashier Adam, Tax Director, Nexia SAB&T Let us start with the numbers that do not make it into the investor roadshow presentations. South Africa’s official unemployment rate reached 33.6% in the second quarter of 2026, its highest level since August 2022, with 8.5-million not having a job. The […]
Getting Price & Paperwork Right for Multi-National Entities
October 12 2026 17:45 This is a guest article by Amy Moutinho, Tax Advisor, Nexia SAB&T For businesses operating across borders, the critical question is not simply whether a related-party transaction has a sound commercial rationale. It is whether the business can demonstrate that the terms reflect the arm’s length principle and can substantiate how […]
Joburg’s Likely Result and the Case for an ANC–DA Coalition
October 12 2026 17:30 JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA An opinion piece by Alistair Anderson No party is likely to win Johannesburg outright on 4 November, and the city’s best hope for a stable government might just be a coalition between its two largest parties: the ANC and the DA. That is an uncomfortable idea for many […]
Cape Town’s unfinished bridges to be completed at last, unlocking 15ha of prime Foreshore land for a new neighbourhood
October 8 2026 16:10 CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA One of Cape Town’s most famous pieces of unfinished business is finally set to be completed. Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has unveiled the City’s plans to finish the Foreshore’s incomplete elevated freeways, almost 50 years after construction stopped in 1977. The Foreshore Precinct Project will see the so-called […]