Output falls almost across the board at Anglo American

Nickel is the exception, with iron ore among the declines in the June quarter, as a production ramp-up at Minas-Rio failed to offset Kumba’s 21% drop

Amplats nearly doubles sales volumes in June quarter

Refined platinum production nearly tripled from the previous quarter as it worked through backlogs caused by planned stocktaking and safety stoppages

Livestock producers snap up poor quality wheat for animal feed

Farms have had bumper crops, but quality problems have weighed on prices. Now wheat is eating into demand for maize as a staple animal feed

Rhodes not about to close down, says vice-chancellor Sizwe Mabizela

But another year of zero fee increases in 2017 will place SA’s higher education system in a precarious position, unless the state can provide shortfall funding again

Now is not the time to cut funding for SA’s HIV/AIDS programme, says US

Pepfar has reviewed its 2012 decision to cut funding, on the basis of strong scientific evidence from SA, which has the world’s biggest treatment programme

Pimco brings in Man Group head to reverse slump

Pimco, which built its reputation largely through its management of fixed-income assets, is under pressure to reverse a drop in assets under management

Fund for fired SABC journalists soars

The fund set up to help “brave South African journalists who lost their jobs for standing up for media freedom” has raised more than three times its target in 24 hours

SA’s great whites are nearing extinction

The local population of the feared sharks face a double danger, say the authors of a comprehensive new study

Consumer inflation remains outside Reserve Bank target ahead of rates call

Statistics SA’s latest CPI report shows inflation accelerated in June, snapping a three-month slowdown