Drive for energy producers

Business is to play a bigger role in securing Cape Town’s electricity needs to counter national power supplier Eskom’s load-shedding impact on profits.

• House-hunting in the Hamptons
• American wood will heat homes in Paris
• What’s next for Platinum Seed founder?
• How tragedy led to a start up

Drive for energy producers

Business is to play a bigger role in securing Cape Town’s electricity needs to counter national power supplier Eskom’s load-shedding impact on profits.

• House-hunting in the Hamptons
• American wood will heat homes in Paris
• What’s next for Platinum Seed founder?
• How tragedy led to a start up

What’s next for Platinum Seed founder?

Platinum Seed founder Bradley Elliott tells IOL how he got into his first start up in this Q&A series.

• How tragedy led to a start up
• How Creative Nestlings got started
• How Genevieve Allen got into a startup
• How Birchwood was founded

American wood will heat homes in Paris

Paris plans to import thousands of tons of wood from America as part of a push to use more renewable energy in its urban heating systems.

• Iran to discuss economic cooperation with Turkey
• Twitter reaches milestone, but what’s ahead?
• Ten years of Twitter - the key events
• Mining deals on agenda for Rio Tinto?

S&P 500 turns positive for 2016

A strengthening economic outlook compelled investors to take on more risk.

• FTSE consolidates good week
• Rand weakens on political showdown
• Asian shares edge up
• Dow closes positive for year as commodities rally

Nicola’s Notes: Cry the beloved country

Perhaps the current political shake-up is just what SA needs to get on the right track, writes Nicola Mawson.

• Downgrade does not mean SA is a failed state
• Let us bring guilty men to justice
• Navigating the Moody’s blues
• High-stakes drama as Zuma, reformers face off