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African countries should focus on developing liquid local debt markets in their home currencies to protect them from global ...
A new database from Boston University's Global Development Policy Centre has revealed the top African countries with the ...
Trump imposed tariffs and cut $12.7B in US aid to African nationsAfrica’s debt crisis worsens as interest payments top health, educationRamaphosa urg ...
It's been something that is a South African way of life, you generally can't make ends meet with your salary, so you augment ...
Opinion
South Africa's debt trap
The path out of South Africa's debt trap requires both personal responsibility and systemic change. While loans can offer temporary relief or investment opportunities, the current lending environment ...
SARS is clamping down on non-compliance hard, and taxpayers are being warned to comply or face severe penalties, including ...
Addressing the opening session of the African Union Debt Summit in Lome, Togo, yesterday, President Mahama said Africa must adopt a three-prone approach if the continent was to unlock debt as a ...
A UNISA professor has weighed in on South Africa's worrying debt problem, as the Finance Minister revealed that the country ...
A lower South African inflation target coupled with a revised borrowing strategy could save the government as much as ...
African countries have increasingly turned to international capital markets to meet their development financing needs. For example, Kenya and Benin raised a combined US$2.5 billion through bond ...
Africa will pay nearly $89 billion to service external debt this year, with the majority of its obligations owed to private creditors, according to the ONE Campaign, a Washington, DC-based ...
South Africa’s 10-year government bond yield dropped below 10% for the first time in more than three years as investors bet ...