Latest GDP figures have laid bare the grim reality of Covid-19's economic effects, revealing an unprecedented 51% decline in economic activity in the second quarter of this year...
Maarten Ackerman 9 Sep 2020
The South African economy contracted by a staggering 51% in Quarter 2 of 2020, as the country reeled from the consequences of the Covid-19 enforced lockdown...
8 Sep 2020
On a trip to Denmark to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the National Business Initiative's (NBI) counterparts there, the one issue on which we struggled to connect was inequality...
Steve Nicholls 30 Jul 2020
Despite the uncertainty, business closures and economic decline caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Ian Fuhr launched The Hatch Institute - a personal and business leadership coaching company...
Evan-Lee Courie 13 Jul 2020
Long before the coronavirus pandemic hit the South African environment, its youth population was already disproportionately affected by economic decline...
Thembela Ntlemeza and Sifiso Mazibuko 18 Jun 2020
According to the results of a survey conducted by Construction Computer Software, the lockdown has compelled the construction industry to think more strategically about the adoption of technology...
21 May 2020
Destinate, with the participation of UNWTO, Wesgro and VinPro, will be hosting The Future of Wine Tourism webinar from 19-21 May 2020...
12 May 2020
Saica hosted a webinar where Investec chief economist Annabel Bishop spoke about the effects of sub-investment grade status and the coronavirus on our country's already struggling economy...
Issued by SAICA 4 May 2020
To feed the world in a new era of awareness and to sustain their own future, manufacturers need to change their mindsets...
Roy Henderson 28 Apr 2020
The stalling property market is in dire need of economic relief. The 2016-2018 transfer duty and capital gains tax (CGT) hikes were never going to result in higher government revenue...
Samuel Seeff 24 Feb 2020
"Sustainable agriculture can be defined in many ways, yet the most accurate description is that it sustains farmers, resources and surrounding communities through the promotion of profitable, environmentally-responsible farming activities in the interest of all citizens of South Africa."
20 Sep 2019
Step into our new John Craig store, Centurion and get your Summer look-book first hand.
Issued by John Craig 22 Jul 2019
The relationship between Ghana and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is, to many Ghanaians, a difficult one. Most Ghanaians are of the view that the country should divorce itself from the international body...
Priscilla Twumasi-Baffour 1 Jul 2019
According to the Seeff Property Group, it is not just the demand for residential accommodation that drives the Cape Town rental market, but added economic drivers such as tourism, conventions and events, corporate contracts and semigration...
18 Jun 2019
South Africa's economy is in dire straits. Unemployment has reached a 15-year high of 27.6%. And in the first quarter of this year GDP growth dropped by 3.2%. That's the biggest quarterly drop in a decade...
Sean Gossel 14 Jun 2019
Following the recent announcement of a 0.7% drop in GDP in the second quarter of 2018, South Africa has fallen into another technical recession...
Adrian Goslett 10 Sep 2018
Fuel prices are up, the cost of living is on the rise, and yet your dream car might be more accessible than ever...
3 Aug 2018
According to Seeff's Imtiaz Adam, the Southern Suburbs sectional title rental market has softened notably over the last few months...
28 May 2018
Bright by name. Bright by nature. Bright through sheer hard work and dogged determination participated in the Sasol Siyazenzela Youth Programme (SSYB) in 2015, facilitated with the assistance of female-owned Tushiyah Advisory Services...
Issued by Stone Décor 21 Feb 2018
The latest Nielsen South African Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) for Q3, 2017 reflects a five-point increase from the previous quarter to 83 points, the highest level since Quarter 3, 2016...
Issued by Nielsen 16 Jan 2018
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa assuming leadership of the ANC will be nothing less than a direct cardiac adrenaline shot to business confidence...
Lew Geffen 19 Dec 2017
The new AdFocus Awards chairperson for 2018-19 is Phumi Mashigo, MD of Ignitive. She takes over the rein from Craig Page-Lee, founder of d-cifr...
23 Nov 2017
You need to take care, there are pitfalls...
Samuel Seeff 21 Aug 2017
The SA Reserve Bank recently reduced the repo rate by 25 basis points...
Sindy Peters 21 Jul 2017
Fifth Africa CEO Forum Opens in Geneva with the theme of interrogating and rethinking the African ‘business model' in order to overhaul it...
22 Mar 2017
Riot police in Zimbabwe fired tear gas and beat up opposition protesters marching Wednesday through Harare against the new 'bond note currency'...
2 Dec 2016
Sub-Saharan Africa's rapidly rising middle class is a huge FMCG market in waiting, says Southern African FMCG entrepreneur Adam Molai...
22 Jul 2016
The question of gender equality in social welfare policies is a topic that remains under-developed in social welfare theory and policy thinking in the Global South. This is true even though it is increasingly receiving attention in the North...
Leila Patel 23 May 2016
Researchers at the University of Pretoria warn that a ratings downgrade of South Africa to junk status may serve as a self-fulfilling prophesy..
Dr Conrad Beyers, Dr Pieter de Villiers and Dr Rey 19 Apr 2016
The decision to hike the repo rate by 50 basis points, taking it to 6.75%, and the base home loan rate beyond the 10% barrier to 10.25%, comes as no surprise...
Samuel Seeff 29 Jan 2016
SA's Tourism sector is entering its first serious crisis stage as Stats SA's Q1 figures reveal a bleak 6% decline in total foreign tourist arrivals to South Africa for the period ending 31 March 2015...
3 Jul 2015
Wondering why you haven't heard Wonderland's name at any local award shows (yet)? There's a perfectly good reason...
Leigh Andrews 31 Mar 2015
When business gets tight, the initial reaction by the vast majority of business owners may be to cut costs by reducing staff, cutting hours, downscaled delivery or terminating marketing.
20 Sep 2013
Innovative ways of bridging the gap between tertiary education and employment have come to the fore in a move by leading educators to find solutions for workplace skills training and graduate employment.
17 Jul 2013
Educators are searching for solutions to bridge the gap between tertiary education and employment. Innovative methods have come to fore in developing workplace skills training and helping graduates to find employment.
17 Jul 2013
South Africa needs to renew its focus on African economies in order to grow its export destinations, Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Thursday (14 March).
15 Mar 2013
Government should help create South Africa's own black industrialists, President Jacob Zuma said in Johannesburg.
Chris Bathembu 11 Oct 2012
More on the Mau Mau veterans suing the British government for alleged torture when Kenya was a British colony, worries about a fall in tourism in Uganda and a drop in investment in South Africa all feature in today's African papers...
Michael Fitzpatrick 19 Jul 2012
While most marketers will endorse the fact that marketing works in building brands, improving brand image and driving sales, the relationship between marketing and investor value is not always that clear. Although we as marketers will anecdotally believe it, isolating the effect of marketing is complex.
Thomas Oosthuizen 28 Mar 2012
The economic crisis occurs under very upbeat circumstances for Africa said President Jacob Zuma.
31 Jan 2012
A total of 468 000 people are likely to lose their jobs in South Africa as a result of the global economic decline and a report released by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) rates South Africa as having one of the worst employment rates in the world, alongside Spain and America.
14 Oct 2011
BBC and CNN stand accused of providing 'dishonest', 'euro-centrist' and 'personalised' coverage of African elections, which totally misses the point and fails to connect with the real issues on the ground. This emerged at the Media and Elections in Africa two-day conference held this week at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Issa Sikiti da Silva 13 Oct 2010
BULAWAYO: A resurgence of interest in dried traditional vegetables has opened up a market opportunity for women entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe's second city, Bulawayo.
Ignatius Banda 19 Jul 2010
The growth in South African hotel industry capacity is based extensively on the unprecedented economic growth experienced over the decade leading up to the global contagion, which was ignited in September 2008 and which resulted in the pent-up demand for hotel accommodation all but dissipating in the wake of the economic meltdown. It is a common misconception in the market that the 2010 FIFA World Cup has motivated this increase.
Kamil Abdul-Karrim 1 Jun 2010
Freight logistics group Grindrod on Wednesday advised shareholders that its earnings per share and headline earnings per share for the six-month period to 30 June 2009 are expected to decrease by between 50% and 60%, compared with the corresponding period in 2008.
2 Jul 2009
Zimbabwe's banking sector is working towards re-introducing international credit and debit card purchasing and cash dispensing systems, which collapsed at the height of an economic crisis over the past decade.
Sam Hungwe 11 May 2009
There's been a lot said and written about how the economic decline will impact the poorest of the poor, but much of it considers only how people already on the breadline will be affected - not that there will be far more of them.
Amelia Jones 14 Apr 2009
Volumes at the Durban container terminal dropped 15.6% from December to last month compared with the same period last year, Solly Letsoalo, chief operating officer at Transnet Port Terminals, has reported.
Margie Inggs 23 Mar 2009
Red warning lights are going off for many South Africans who are sinking deeper into debt. The economic decline, interest rate hikes and petrol, food and electricity price increases — which have outpaced salary increases — are all increasing the pressure.
13 Mar 2009