If the continent opens up he could emerge as Africa’s champion.
SA’s economy will grow a better-than-expected 3% this year but this will be too slow to tackle soaring unemployment, the finance minister has warned.
Labour federation won’t go it alone even though its economic policies contradict those of the ANC.
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A weak rand is unlikely to help South African manufacturing, argues <b>Adrian Saville</b>.
South African retail sales rose more than expected in May, growing for the fifth month in a row ahead of the soccer World Cup.
It will take three to five years to see the economic benefits of the World Cup, a Human Sciences Research Council academic said on Tuesday.
As the Greek debt crisis escalates, we look at Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan plan to contain the risks locally.
The South African rand is far too strong, Congress of South African Trade Unions secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi said on Monday.
<b>Richard Calland</b>: People must stop waiting and become active citizens in their demands for fairness and equality and accountable governance.
Economist <b>Dawie Roodt</b> takes a closer look at what is driving South Africa’s currency.
The cloud of volcanic ash hanging over northern Europe has cost the South African economy more than R100-million.
What matters is the real exchange rate, which takes into account what you can actually buy with your depreciated rand.
Taxi strikes are hampering SA’s hesitant recovery from the economic crisis, the SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry said on Thursday.
Less than 3 000 posts have been spared so far, despite government pumping R2.4‑billion into training layoff scheme.
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/ 24 February 2010
"The good news is that inflation is expected to fall back below the target range next month," say Nedbank Group economists.
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/ 23 February 2010
South Africa is coming out of its first recession in almost two decades reasonably quickly, SA Reserve Bank Governor Gill Marcus said on Tuesday.
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/ 18 February 2010
South Africa is the biggest welfare state in the world, economist Mike Schussler said on Thursday.
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/ 18 February 2010
South African’s rising public wage bill may have serious implications for the country’s ability to service its debt.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Wednesday there was no need to change the South African Reserve Bank’s existing inflation target band.
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/ 23 September 2009
The SA economy was developed with forced cheap labour, mainly Africans and the other oppressed communities classified as Indian and coloured.
Despite a budget shortfall of as much as R60-billion, experts say everything is more or less under control.
SA’s targeted consumer inflation slowed to 8% year-on-year in May, slightly above expectations, from 8,4% in April, official data showed on Wednesday.
SA will continue to pursue fiscal policies that have helped grow the economy, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Tuesday.
Condoning poor performance has a negative effect on the whole economy.
The number of enquiries from South Africans living abroad about the availability of top jobs in SA has increased, a headhunting firm says.
Treasury DG Lesetja Kganyago said on Tuesday that the economic storm is more ferocious than initially thought.
SA faces a sharp downturn after a prolonged boom and is responding with counter-cyclical measures to boost growth, Treasury DG Lesetja Kganyago says.
Patel has been one of the strongest critics of the investor-friendly economic policies of the past decade.
Jacob Zuma’s new power brokers are signalling that a new trade regime is on the way.
New Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan tells Nic Dawes what activism might mean amid global recession.
The increase in joblessness shows that government’s ambitious infrastructural development programmes are not doing enough to keep people in work.
The rand shruggs off uncertainty ahead of the announcement, expected this week, by Jacob Zuma of his choice of Cabinet.