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A stable environment at home and opportunities in other African regions are providing a solid backdrop for South African ...
"We must establish and operationalise an African credit rating agency rooted in ...
South Africa's repo rate, currently 7.50%, is expected to hold steady in May, the survey found, with policymakers waiting until either July or September for the next cut to 7.25%.
Although South Africa’s economic growth has been disappointing, it is expected to pick up modestly in 2025 compared to previous years, PPS Investments predicts. If domestic inflation remains ...
Russia hosted the first official BRIC summit in 2009, and South Africa joined a year later by invitation from China, forming the five-country grouping that would last for more than a decade.
Recently, ratings agency Moody’s dropped South Africa’s expected GDP growth to come in at 1.5%, down from its initial 1.7% figure, while the South African Reserve Bank previously anticipated 1 ...
The report noted that, excluding Nigeria, South Africa, and Angola, the rest of the region is projected to grow by 4.6% in 2025 and a robust 5.7% in the subsequent years, underscoring the drag ...
The International Monetary Fund;s (IMF) latest economic outlook has bad news for South Africa thanks to the Trump tariffs, revising economic growth for the country to only 1% in 2025 and 1.3% in 2026.
Two more economic reviews have cut South Africa’s growth prospects for 2025 – putting Ramaphosa’s 3% dreams even further out of reach. South Africa is in trouble – BusinessTech Markets data ...
A breakdown in World Bank Africa Pulse puts Uganda's growth rate at 6.2 Rwanda’s growth is 7.0 percent, Tanzania’s growth has been put at 5.7 per cent, DR Congo 4.8 per cent, Kenya 4.5 per ...
In its latest Africa’s Pulse report, the World Bank forecasts that growth in sub-Saharan Africa will edge up from 3.3% in 2024 to 3.5% in 2025 and further accelerate to 4.3% in 2026 and 2027.
Economists expect a poor GDP reading to be published this week, continuing the trend of stagnating economic growth in South Africa. Big trouble for South Africa this week – BusinessTech Markets data ...