Economy News

#YouthMonth

Celebrating Youth Month and 2025 YEP Top Achievers

Young South Africans harness restituted land for jobs and economic growth

GirlCode expands coding initiatives as youth unemployment soars in SA

SPONSORED BY:

More #YouthMonth

Subscribe & Follow

BizTrendsTV

RAPT BizTrendsTV: Student Village's Ronen Aires - Gen Z's disruption of the world

Advertise your job vacancies

Multimedia

All Galleries Audios Videos

#See: Africa Tech Week Awards 2025 celebrates innovation

#See: Africa Tech Week Awards 2025 celebrates innovation

#See: Hertex HAUS reopens reimagined Bellville Showroom

#See: Hertex HAUS reopens reimagined Bellville Showroom

RAPT BizTrendsTV: Student Village's Ronen Aires - Gen Z's disruption of the world

RAPT BizTrendsTV: Musa Kalenga - How agentic AI is revolutioning business

Source:

Households owe most of R416bn in municipal debt as collections fall short

Local retail sales rise 5.1% year on year in April

Local retail sales rise 5.1% year on year in April

Beef, oils, and vegetables lead rise in food costs despite stable inflation

Beef, oils, and vegetables lead rise in food costs despite stable inflation

Local retail sales rise 5.1% year on year in April

Local retail sales rise 5.1% year on year in April

2 days

Beef, oils, and vegetables lead rise in food costs despite stable inflation

Beef, oils, and vegetables lead rise in food costs despite stable inflation

3 days

More news

Source: Reuters/2023. President Cyril Ramaphosa.

#Sona2024: Ramaphosa's last address - Legacy, challenges, and climate action

Katja Hamilton 9 Feb 2024

Image source:

#Sona2024: Govt to extend and improve R350 social relief grant

9 Feb 2024

#Sona24: Agbiz highlights the need for a pragmatic approach in land reform

#Sona24: Agbiz highlights the need for a pragmatic approach in land reform

9 Feb 2024

Image source: bram janssens –

National minimum wage increases

5 Feb 2024

Source: Reuters.

South African factory activity slumps in January - Absa PMI

2 Feb 2024

Source:

Officials raise alarm over hiring freeze at Western Cape’s largest hospitals

Daniel Steyn 2 Feb 2024

Source:

2023 was a somewhat better year for salaries and private pensions

31 Jan 2024

Source: Reuters.

Maimane: Unveiling a job-centric manifesto to tackle unemployment

30 Jan 2024

SAHRC Commissioner Philile Ntuli

SAHRC releases July 2021 unrest report

29 Jan 2024

Source:

Lower inflation a positive indicator for potential interest-rate cuts - Andrew Golding

Andrew Golding 26 Jan 2024

Source: Reuters.

Reserve Bank's deputy governor departure sparks questions

Katja Hamilton 25 Jan 2024

Source:

#WEF24: Global leaders unite to drive initiatives for climate action and clean energy

Katja Hamilton 19 Jan 2024

Source:

Report: Lower income women more likely to pursue entrepreneurship

18 Jan 2024

Source:

Chief Economists Outlook 2024: More economic uncertainty on the horizon

15 Jan 2024

Source: Supplied. David Rees, senior emerging markets economist at Schroders.

Will Suez shipping disruption derail hopes for rate cuts?

David Rees 10 Jan 2024

Alison Mellon, Knowledge and Learning Lawyer: Banking and Finance, and Thomas Erskine, Candidate Legal Practitioner, Bowmans

#BizTrends2024: Legal insight into banking and finance for 2024

Alison Mellon and Thomas Erskine 9 Jan 2024

Source: Tumisu via

FAO reports decrease in global food prices for December

9 Jan 2024

South Africa finally has more clarity on the role that Minister in the Presidency responsible for Electricity, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, will play in alleviating load shedding. Source: x.com

Ramaphosa MoU clarifies ministerial roles in fight against load shedding

7 Jan 2024

Source:

Medical union urges action on unemployment crisis for doctors

5 Jan 2024

Source:

How to save jobs in a collapsing economy

4 Jan 2024

Source: Reuters.

For investors, 2024 is the year of transition to a new economic order

Paritosh Bansal 4 Jan 2024

Source: 123RF.

SA's economic outlook in 2024: Global trends and challenges

Raymond Parsons 1 Jan 2024

Source: Reuters.

Oil steady as market monitors Red Sea developments

Jeslyn Lerh 27 Dec 2023

Source: © 123rf Despite fraud cases dominating the news cycle, there has been a decrease in fraudulent and dishonest life insurance claims

AI steps up the fight against insurance fraud

21 Dec 2023

Image source: Tim Mossholder from

Challenging conditions continue to close doors in 2023

Craig Blumenthal 19 Dec 2023

Image source: Singkham from

Trade rules and climate change: Africa stands to lose from proposed WTO policy tools

Olabisi D. Akinkugbe 18 Dec 2023

Source: © 123rf Old Mutual announced that it has been awarded the African seat on the Global Steering Group for the UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance

Old Mutual leads the charge against climate change in Africa

18 Dec 2023

Source:

Consumer credit market sees modest improvements in Q3 2023

14 Dec 2023

Image source: Mike Bird from

Electric Vehicles White Paper: Tax incentives, climate goals to drive EV industry

Virusha Subban and Gabriel Rybko 13 Dec 2023

Source: Reuters.

South African manufacturing output rises 2.1% y/y in October

Bhargav Acharya 13 Dec 2023

Let's do Biz