Business Day - 2024-03-12

• ANC’s electoral support slides below 40%
• Absa’s bad debts rise sharply and retail profits drop
• Eskom highlights issues in Treasury report
• Qualificat­ions of senior managers a mystery
• Building sector confidence plummets to lowest since mid-2020
• Modest exercise ‘gives health big boost’
• Tobacco bill may languish in parliament
• ANC defends including suspects
• Putin likely to solidify power in looming Russian election
• Portugal’s far right surges in election
• Top Tory defects to right-wing Reform UK party
• Some black voters in US disillusio­ned with Joe Biden
• Fate of ‘Shadow Man’ in Gaza still not confirmed
• Spain marks 20 years since terror attacks
• At least 50 hurt in latest Boeing mid-flight incident
• Most profound electoral question of all
• Drought poses inflation risk
• Water crisis
• Changes to governing party are rare — and that’s likely to remain the case
• Structural factors that slow growth ignored in budget
• Can the ANC, DA and EFF deliver on their jobs promises?
• The press box is in injury time
• Canal+ bid for MultiChoic­e sets up regulatory showdown
• Fortress grows turnover on simplified capital structure
• Planet42 gets R300m funding from Standard
• SA gold miner Aurous Resources to go public
• Musk to open source xAI’s ChatGPT challenger Grok
• Microsoft software use ‘breached rules’
• Driver blaming defence faces scrutiny in trial
• Reddit targets up to $6bn valuation in US IPO
• Howls of protest: Britain mulls UAE bid for Daily Telegraph
• Honeywell goes to court over engine pricing
• Opec, watchdog at odds on oil demand, cleaner fuels
• All is not well with US banks
• Smart cities stall while spaces designed from scratch thrive
• TWO-SPEED CROSSWORD
• JSE weaker, focus on US inflation data
• Scheffler ends year-long title drought
• Broos-Khoza meeting in pipeline
• Man City’s Guardiola not afraid to make bold moves
• Barca face game of the season manager Xavi
• Lyles on four-gold mission
• More than winning or losing at stake in SA cricket

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