The currency’s trade volume and volatility is keeping currency analysts on their toes.
Parliament is considering clamping down on lenders charging illegal rates.
Investors have been attracted by the industry’s performance spurred by strong market growth.
Reversing QE has begun and the challenge now is for the Fed’s new chairperson to keep it in check.
Slow growth, a rising deficit — and an election — leave the finance minister little room to manoeuvre.
A narrowing of the worrisome trade deficit will not be thanks to a the spiralling currency, say experts.
US and Chinese figures are testing the nerves of investors still coming to terms with the QE retreat.
Calls for centralised bargaining in the platinum industry persist.
The group now faces scrutiny in South Africa, after its overseas subsidiary was nailed.
It may take at least a year before the BEE commission is formed.
The issue of labour representation is central to the problems in the industry.
Report reveals that consumers’ financial vulnerability is growing more acute.
Oceana asks the Competition Tribunal to overturn a decision by the commission.
When things go wrong abroad, having insurance can help avert a costly nightmare.
The mining companies are enjoying some respite from the effects of the latest strike.
There is an urgent need to review black economic empowerment, say business leaders.
The recent rates hikes by distressed emerging markets are also due to a slowdown in China.
Retailers wanting to cash in on trends quickly have thrown local clothing makers a lifeline.
More people are selling to upgrade and house prices are set to increase.
South Africa’s economic indicators have been a mixed bag so far this year – some spell doom and gloom while others suggest a better year than last.
Neither merchants nor consumers have benefited from the new restrictions on scrap exports.
Zimbabwe government officials are allegedly debating whether to expropriate Tongaat Hulett’s farmlands.
Harmony looks to the Constitutional Court to reverse a ruling that cost it millions.
Experts are concerned that the selling of parallel imported goods may be hurting local business.
SA’s skills-starved economy has easily absorbed those whose fortunes overseas have been reversed.
Acquisitions could help the industry survive cost increases and lower commodity prices.
Despite eco-disaster warnings, mining firms are in a mad dash to cash in on Greenland’s bounties.
Probe into the private healthcare sector goes ahead.
Report shows that local governments owe almost R31.6-trillion.
Analysts say drastic measures are required if the government wants to reach its goal.
Advanced economies have struggled to recover fully after the 2008 global financial crisis, and South Africa will remain on rocky terrain with them.
Polite compliments and vagueness mask the rumblings of political disquiet at the power utility.