South Africa will keep its policy of targeting inflation, which has helped to stabilise prices and encouraged economic growth.
SA’s mining industry has been hard hit by lower commodity prices due to the global economic downturn, Minister of Minerals Susan Shabangu says.
Zimbabwe can achieve economic growth between 4% and 6% in 2009 and is coping with the lack of foreign aid, Finance Minister Tendai Biti says.
Baby Hisinawa is permanently semi-comatose after TB spread to his brain, his stiff body shivering as a doctor pushes a rubber tube down his nose.
SA will meet a 2014 target to halve unemployment, a Cabinet minister said on Saturday, despite the prospect of rising job losses.
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/ 27 February 2009
Southern African finance ministers agreed on Friday to push for donor help to rebuild Zimbabwe after economic collapse.
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/ 2 December 2008
The IDC said on Tuesday the pre-feasibility study for a R129-billion coal-to-liquid plant it was conducting with Sasol was due in March 2009.
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/ 19 November 2008
France Telecom still sees Africa as a lucrative frontier market despite the global financial crisis, a company official said on Tuesday.
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/ 18 November 2008
S is not facing a recession, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Tuesday, despite major industrialised countries slipping into negative growth.
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/ 6 November 2008
South Africa will take a tough line at a regional summit this weekend to end deadlock in Zimbabwe’s power-sharing talks.