Ruan Jooste Senior reporter

Ruan Jooste has been a financial writer for close to 20 years. Her previous stints include editor positions at Financial Mail, Business Day, Finweek and Daily Maverick. She has also ventured into corporate communications and public relations, and even tried working for herself. She returned to financial journalism in 2019 by joining the Business Maverick team as associate editor, and in February 2021 she stepped into the position of senior reporter at the Sunday Times. She is the 2010 recipient of the Citi Journalistic Excellence Award.

Ruan Jooste Senior reporter
Popia is not just alphabet soup. There is method in all the mandated madness

Initial technical glitches have been overcome and the act is ready for implementation, says Pansy Tlakula

Ruan Jooste Senior reporter
Kopanong municipality suspends municipal boss as employee salaries go unpaid ...

The Kopanong municipality in the Free State's Xhariep district suspended municipal manager Martin Khubeka on Friday as the embattled council has ...

Ruan Jooste Senior reporter
R165m: that’s how much Emfuleni has wasted on a trio of non-starters

A sports facility, testing station and transport hub lie in ruins, raising the ire of residents

Ruan Jooste Senior reporter
Broke and broken Emfuleni hopes to free itself from ANC stranglehold

Other parties aim for a workable coalition after ANC slips from 55.63% of the vote in 2016 to 39.71% this year

Ruan Jooste Senior reporter
From sizzle to fizzle: government’s Braai Cafe youth project goes down in flames

Youth cooperative pilot project, funded by the DSBD and NYDA, falls flat after bickering and ‘lack of support’

Ruan Jooste Senior reporter
Embattled Emfuleni municipality loses all vehicles as sheriff swoops

Council in trouble after workers lose wages from council downgrading salary scales, allegedly without due processes

Ruan Jooste Senior reporter
Classics get the cold shoulder, making for heated rivalry on SA airwaves

Hot FM, which has taken over Classic FM, has raised the ire of its competitors for ‘disregarding’ the terms of its licence

Ruan Jooste Senior reporter
No paltry measures as poultry master plan aims to fix chicken industry ...

The broiler business is beset with commercial challenges, including the rising cost of feed, disease control barriers to exports, as well as the ...

Ruan Jooste Senior reporter
Chicken is giving inflation wings, warn analysts

The rising maize price is making chicken feed more expensive as the industry reels from an annual 12.5% fall in sales

Ruan Jooste Senior reporter
SA's dagga master plan: State to reveal its hand on managing weed in law

The government will finally present the national cannabis master plan to the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) on Wednesday, ...