Kasinomics founder and informal economy expert GG Alcock says South Africa’s township economy, valued at around R1 trillion, is showing strong growth. In 1999, Alcock founded Minanawe Marketing ...

If the wage bill were slashed in half transferred to investment, South Africa’s investment level could rise to “25% of GDP, which will be where it was in the early 2000s. Then the economy will ...

The war with Trump’s tariffs is simply too big for South Africa to fight back with tariffs, making finding other markets a ...

Meanwhile, South Africa’s hard-currency bonds have outperformed Sub-Saharan African peers this year, losing 1.5% compared to a 3.3% drop across the broader Africa index. DOUBLE WHAMMY: It’s been far ...

Following US President Donald Trump’s imposition of additional tariffs on South African exports to that country as part of a broader move to nationalise trade, South Africa is likely to see ...

in a move that is likely to be a huge blow to its already floundering economy. "They have got some bad things going on in South Africa. You know, we are paying them billions of dollars ...

This is quite a disappointing performance as the transport sector has often in the past been an outperformer relative to the broader economy ... payload in South Africa (down from 84.4% in 2023), ...

The South African government has proposed an increase in several taxes such as the Value Added Tax (VAT) and excise duties, as part of its fiscal strategy to generate additional revenue and ...