Business Day

Business Day is listed as Center on Crosswire: like most business and financial dailies it is read across the political spectrum, with an editorial line defined more by markets than by party politics. In South Africa, Mail & Guardian is listed as Left-leaning — so you can open Business Day beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

Read Business Day beside another title from South Africa and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Business dailies rank stories by market consequence rather than political salience, so Business Day will often lead on something the general press buries — and describe the same policy in the language of cost and risk rather than fairness. Because Business Day is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from South Africa either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed 2026-08-31. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

Business Day is one of 6 outlets tracked in South Africa and the only business daily tracked there. By outlets tracked, South Africa ranks first of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Africa hub, which lists 178 outlets in all.

Across Africa, Crosswire tracks 4 of the 30 business dailies in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Business Day outside South Africa, starting with Southern Africa, are Expansão (Angola), Togo First (Togo) and Addis Fortune (Ethiopia). Opening one of them beside Business Day is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.