Browsing: South African economy

The informal economy includes street vendors, spaza shops, hawkers, tuck shops, second-hand goods traders, small grocery and clothing traders, hairdressers,…

Eskom has released the group’s unaudited interim financial statements for the six months ended 30 September 2025, which further demonstrate…

While the South African economy has experienced various challenges, including electricity shortages, work is underway to ensure that the country…

South Africa could avoid possible greylisting if it implemented recommendations in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) mutual evaluation report.…

Digital isn’t the future, it’s the now, and it holds the potential to play a key role in transforming the…

The South African economy and small businesses, in particular, have been dealt some hefty blows. With the COVID-19 pandemic still an…

Covid-19 had a big impact on almost every country’s economy. South Africa isn’t an exception. After the serious damage to…

While South Africans celebrate the lifting of many COVID-19 restrictions and the full reopening of the economy, the news is…

President Cyril Ramaphosa addressing South Africans on developments in our country’s risk-adjusted strategy to manage the spread of COVID-19, said…

Logistics company Santova is planning to expand its presence globally as COVID-19 batters the world economy and disrupts supply chains.…

The South African National Treasury presented bleak scenarios on the impact of COVID-19 on Thursday, in a briefing in which…

Re-emerging from the ruins of the economy-crippling COVID-19 pandemic presents South Africa with an opportunity to arise with a renewed…

Only a little while ago the economic concerns of South Africa were about load shedding and the worry was over…

A call has been made for South Africans to support locally made products as part of efforts to jump-start the…

Over the next month, the state will shift its response to the COVID-19 pandemic by preserving the economy, developing immediate…

South African government, through the National Treasury, is exploring all funding avenues to finance all COVID-19 related programmes and measures…

As rating agency Fitch announced its decision to downgrade South Africa from ‘BB+’ to ‘BB’, placing the country further into…

Government has urged all South Africans to unite, remain positive and continue to work hand-in-hand to turn the economy around.…

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan says a special bill on Eskom — aimed at finding a roadmap of the power…

With some currencies showing high growth, there are foreign currency pairs that grow alongside them as investment instruments. The forex…

In a first six months of 2017 that saw the South Africa’s sovereign credit rating downgraded to BB+ from BBB…

by Misheck Mutize and Sean Gossel Although South Africa avoided a downgrade to non-investment grade, or junk status, in 2016, the country…