Tag: risk
Banks balk at risk of funding South Africa mining charter deals
South Africa’s plan to force mining companies to give the black majority a bigger stake in the nation’s mineral wealth faces a major obstacle: convincing banks to back billions of dollars of...
Critical warning remains in place for all water users in Cape Town
The City of Cape Town is preparing for the imminent implementation of further intensified waterrestrictions. The envisaged Level 4b restrictions would adjust the water usage target downwards to 500 million litres of collective water use per day. This comes...
New ranking shows which SA banks contribute most to systemic risk
Two students from UCT have designed South Africa’s first systemic risk ranking – which outlines what could happen in a financial crisis and identifies who is putting the system most at...
Clinton presidency and SA risk
Trump has made a speciality out of the outrageous, upset many people, but kept coming on. However, scaling up from petty outrage among the relative few 13 million early followers, it...