Ed Stoddard

Amid debates about whether South Africa’s white shark population has shifted partly east or gone into a precipitous decline, sightings off the Eastern Cape – followed by a vanishing act in the wake of a confirmed orca attack – add credence to the view that the sharks move on when they become prey.

South Africa's sluggish economic growth, sky-high unemployment, and persistent inflation rates have painted a picture of stagflation.

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Gwede Mantashe has had energy ripped from his hands in SA's new Cabinet, but he retains an iron grip on the mining portfolio despite the shambles that has come to define governance under his watch.

The South African Weather Service has extended its long-range forecast for dryer and warmer weather conditions across most of the country to November. If this holds true, it could bode ill for the planting season for early summer crops such as the staple maize.

In the warm heart of Africa, a grassroots campaign is blazing a new trail to bring compensation and comfort to the human victims of human-wildlife conflict — impoverished Africans dehumanised by animal welfare NGOs. This needs to become a movement.

At least 10 people have been killed, more than $3m worth of crops have been destroyed and homes have been trashed. Rural communities in Zambia and Malawi have inhabited a landscape of fear and loathing since 263 elephants were translocated to Kasungu National Park in 2022.

South Africa's Consumer Price Index (CPI) slowed slightly to 5.1% year on year in June, with food inflation braking to an almost four-year low. With the South African Reserve Bank showing tentative signs of loosening monetary policy sooner rather than later, hard-pressed consumers may finally be seeing some light at the end of the inflation and interest rate tunnel.

A $1.6bn impairment on its Woodsmith fertiliser project in the UK pushed Anglo American's H1 attributable earnings into the red but the company remains committed to the asset as it targets the disposal of its Australian coal operations and De Beers.

The Durban-based Citrus Growers Association has cut its estimate for 2024 exports by 9% to 165.3 million cartons after freezing weather, floods and high winds damaged the orange crop. This will still be a record year, but short of the bumper 181.7 million cartons previously estimated.