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Source: Reuters.

Budget Speech

SA's Budget delay: National Treasury's next steps and fiscal risks

3 days

Source: Wikipedia.

Finance

Budget 2025: Balancing growth and fiscal sustainability

13 Feb 2025

Inflation is down, but construction industry must still play safe

Construction & Engineering

Inflation is down, but construction industry must still play safe

Lindsey Schutters 23 Jan 2025

Nosiyabonga Mongane the first black woman to serve as the President of the South African Council for the Quantity Surveying Profession

Trends

#BizTrends2025: The future of quantity surveying is all about AI and budgets

Nosiyabonga Mongane 13 Jan 2025

How data can drive employee engagement in 2025

4th Industrial Revolution

How data can drive employee engagement in 2025

Issued by icandi CQ 12 Dec 2024

A new era for South Africa's retail credit market

Banking & Finance

A new era for South Africa's retail credit market

Regan Adams 10 Dec 2024

How is SA’s middle class feeling going into the holidays?

Research

How is SA’s middle class feeling going into the holidays?

Issued by BrandMapp 5 Dec 2024

Source: Supplied. Waldo Marcus, marketing director at TPN from MRI Software.

Residential Property

Prudent investments keep rental market stable as vacancies drop to 5.07%

3 Dec 2024

Source: Reuters.

Banking

Standard Chartered mulls sale of wealth, retail operations in Africa

28 Nov 2024

Source: Pexels.

Property

The true cost of borrowing: South Africans are losing their homes

19 Nov 2024

Source: Reuters.

Markets & Investment

Trump policies may cause an initial global and US economic downturn

14 Nov 2024

Merchant Capital’s Here We Grow campaign was conceived to redefine how South African SMEs perceive growth capital (Image supplied)

Marketing

#BehindtheCampaign: Merchant Capital’s Here We Grow campaign reflects SMEs' entrepreneurial journey

13 Nov 2024

Markets & Investment

US bond sell-off: A harbinger of things to come?

12 Nov 2024

Source: Reuters.

Markets & Investment

Trump's approach to global trade: Market uncertainties rise

Andre Cilliers 7 Nov 2024

Climate Change

African countries shouldn’t have to borrow money to fix climate damage they never caused – economist

Carlos Lopes 6 Nov 2024

Minister Godongwana remained firm on the Treasury stance regarding no further Transnet bailouts. Source: x.com

Mining

#MTBPS2024: Minerals Council suggests bigger Transnet bailout

Lindsey Schutters 30 Oct 2024

Digitalisation: A game changer for sub-Saharan Africa's informal merchants

Informal Retailing

Digitalisation: A game changer for sub-Saharan Africa's informal merchants

25 Oct 2024

Source: Supplied. Stefan Botha, director of Rainmaker Marketing.

Property

With rapid growth, Stellenbosch emerges as a hub for estate and precinct developments

25 Oct 2024

Weather shifts and monetary relief drive optimism for South Africa's farmers

Agribusiness

Weather shifts and monetary relief drive optimism for South Africa's farmers

Gilberto Biacuana and Karabo Mabuza 24 Oct 2024

Source: Schroders Global Investor Insights Survey.

Markets & Investment

Global investors overlook election uncertainties to double down on global equities and private equity

24 Oct 2024

MICE

Africa's MICE industry eyes growth amid global competition and economic hurdles

16 Oct 2024

Source: aleksandarlittlewolf via

Logistics & Transport

Sanral boosts SA's road network with R27.1bn investment

15 Oct 2024

Biased media coverage costs Africa $4.2bn on debt servicing

Media

Biased media coverage costs Africa $4.2bn on debt servicing

15 Oct 2024

Property

Urgent call for interest-rate cut to rejuvenate SA's property market

Katja Hamilton 18 Sep 2024

Financial Services

Two-pot is hiding another nasty tax surprise

Paul Menge 17 Sep 2024

Source: Reuters.

Economy

South Africa says reform agenda in progress after Fitch affirms ratings

Kopano Gumbi 17 Sep 2024

Zimbabwe’s booming blueberry industry faces critical funding challenges

Agro-processing

Zimbabwe’s booming blueberry industry faces critical funding challenges

Nyasha Chingono 12 Sep 2024

Property investments will be more attractive once interest rate cuts start to roll

Markets & Investment

Property investments will be more attractive once interest rate cuts start to roll

Issued by Catchwords 11 Sep 2024

Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Banking

Standard Bank sees 52% rise in new credit card users

9 Sep 2024

Markets & Investment

Rate cuts predicted to boost homebuyer confidence and market activity soon

3 Sep 2024

Forex rule hampers Zimbabwe's horticulture recovery

Horticulture

Forex rule hampers Zimbabwe's horticulture recovery

Nyasha Chingono 30 Aug 2024

The role of AI in the agricultural revolution and risks of change

Agriculture

The role of AI in the agricultural revolution and risks of change

Bernadette Versfeld 19 Aug 2024

Source: Reuters.

Economy

Kganyago unpacks R100bn reserve fund withdrawal

Katja Hamilton 31 Jul 2024

isiXhosa.click: Student-led project makes isiXhosa vocabulary easily accessible

Skills Training

isiXhosa.click: Student-led project makes isiXhosa vocabulary easily accessible

Birgit Ottermann, Issued by North-West University (NWU) 29 Jul 2024

Markets & Investment

The MPC has held the repo rate steady - now what?

Katja Hamilton 18 Jul 2024

African skies poised for takeoff: Investment key to growth

Aviation

African skies poised for takeoff: Investment key to growth

16 Jul 2024

Source: @GovernmentZA/X. SA's continued finance minister, Enoch Godongwana.

Finance

Godongwana holds onto Finance Ministry in new Cabinet

Katja Hamilton 1 Jul 2024

Source: Reuters.

Markets & Investment

Yen plunges to 38-year low vs dollar as markets brace for Japan intervention

Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss 27 Jun 2024

Investment key to aviation growth in Africa and beyond

Aviation

Investment key to aviation growth in Africa and beyond

27 Jun 2024

Source: Reuters. South African Reserve Bank's Lesetja Kganyago.

Markets & Investment

No surprises here: Sarb's MPC holds rates steady

Raymond Parsons 31 May 2024

Banking

Afreximbank Q1 2024: Resilience amid challenges, income surges

20 May 2024

Image supplied. Last year's African Banker Award. the African Banker magazine’s African Banker Awards nominees have been announced for this year

Banking

3 women nominees for African Banker Awards Banker of the Year

7 May 2024

Economy

African countries can’t resolve their debt crisis under a system rigged against them

Carlos Lopes 6 May 2024

5 big events impacting local small businesses in May

Entrepreneurship

5 big events impacting local small businesses in May

3 May 2024

Source: Supplied. Century 21 South Africa chief executive officer, Harry Nicolaides.

Property

Property market forecast and the role elections play

22 Apr 2024

Transport Minister Sindisiwe Chikunga addresses the media at the Sanral briefing

Infrastructure & Utilities

With e-toll saga closed, infrastructure projects gain momentum

Lindsey Schutters 10 Apr 2024

Mining

Sibanye-Stillwater focuses on balance sheet, seeks metal steaming deals

Felix Njini 10 Apr 2024

E-toll payments soon a thing of the past

Automotive

E-toll payments soon a thing of the past

10 Apr 2024

Source: Reuters.

Markets & Investment

How an election-packed 2024 is shaping up for world markets

Libby George, Dhara Ranasinghe, Karin Strohecker, Naomi Rovnick,and Marc Jones and Yoruk Bahceli 10 Apr 2024