JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 31 July 2025/African Media Agency (AMA)/ WAs stablecoins gain global traction for their role in ...

Fintech companies, like Lesaka Technologies, are equipping micro-merchants with affordable, easy-to-use digital tools that ...

African governments and development agencies have embraced science, technology and innovation as levers for development over ...

The offering allows customers to acquire smartphones starting from R10 per day, with no credit checks or paperwork ...

Governments should harness the potential of informality as a bridge rather than a barrier to building economic resilience.

The chaos wrought by a recent wave of US tariff actions may be obscuring early signs of recovery in South Africa’s economy, ...

Studies show that women who toil in South Africa’s informal economy, working jobs that are neither taxed nor monitored by the government, play a critical role in lifting their country out of poverty.

In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in South Africa. They had been starved out by the police in Operation Vala ...

CCBSA’s involvement in the Township Economy Revitalisation Programme is part of a strategic approach to drive inclusive economic growth and uplift informal traders.

Nigeria has retained its status as the fourth largest economy in Africa despite a rebasing exercise that’s poised to shore up ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine, where they have languished for over ...