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/ 1 December 2008
Growth figures confirm what we know but raise questions about the handling of our economy,
writes Maya Fisher-French.
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/ 27 November 2008
South Africa will continue to manage its economy with restraint after next year’s elections, African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma says.
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/ 26 November 2008
As consumer inflation eased for a second month, rate-cut expectations grew, with economists expecting the SARB to cut rates in February 2009.
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/ 25 November 2008
Tiger Brands posted a 36% rise in full-year headline earnings per share from continuing operations and forecast real profit growth in the year ahead.
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/ 20 November 2008
Government clings to JSE investments and places its role of policy director in question.
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/ 20 November 2008
Like Barack Obama, president in waiting Jacob Zuma will be inheriting a different economy to the one over which his predecessor presided.
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/ 20 November 2008
Were triple-digit oil prices to blame for the market crisis and what are the prospects for future oil prices? Kevin Davie reports.
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/ 17 November 2008
The impact of the global financial crisis may be felt by world economies for years to come, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Monday.
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/ 13 November 2008
The rand weakened against the dollar on Thursday as worries returned to the market after the US backed away from buying troubled mortgage assets.
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/ 12 November 2008
Current market movements are not rational and the rand’s value does not reflect inherent strength or weakness of the SA economy, Trevor Manuel says.
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/ 12 November 2008
Numsa has accused Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and SARB Governor Tito Mboweni of being key architects behind unpopular macroeconomic policies.
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/ 11 November 2008
As the economy shrinks, the taxman will struggle, writes Lynley Donnelly.
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/ 11 November 2008
Weak markets offer a better opportunity to buy for income, writes Maya Fisher-French.
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/ 7 November 2008
SA’s gold and foreign-exchange reserves dropped from $33,6-billion to $32,1-billion in October, as the rand weakened and gold prices fell.
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/ 7 November 2008
The Treasury and the Reserve Bank have divergent views on inflation, but this will make little difference as to when we can expect to see a rate cut.
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/ 6 November 2008
With almost all international bourses in the red, it was clear that sentiment had taken a turn for the worse, RMB said on Thursday.
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/ 5 November 2008
Nhlanhla Nene — who recently made the news when his chair collapsed during a TV interview — is to be sworn in as deputy minister of finance.
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/ 4 November 2008
SA new vehicle sales plunged 30,1% year-on-year in October as deteriorating consumer confidence added to the strain of higher interest rates.
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/ 3 November 2008
SA’s rand steadied against the dollar on Monday as fears of a global slowdown kept investors cautious towards the currency.
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/ 31 October 2008
SA will stand a better chance of ending poverty if the country maintains free-market policies, Mosiuoa Lekota said on Friday.
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/ 30 October 2008
Cabinet giving even more to education over the medium term, writes Primarashni Gower.
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/ 30 October 2008
And there won’t be one unless farmers get rain,
writes Lynley Donnelly.
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/ 30 October 2008
Where the tax is likely to be targeted and how it will be implemented is unclear at this stage.
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/ 30 October 2008
The government has allocated an additional R170-billion to spending over the next three years, and next year state spending will jump to 29% of GDP.
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/ 30 October 2008
The South African economy was back on the policy frontburner this week with two major documents emerging from the ANC.
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/ 30 October 2008
But the fund needs to be restructured in the long term. Lloyd Gedye reports.
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/ 30 October 2008
Trevor Manuel’s medium-term budget policy statement could have taken a more aggressive approach.
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/ 25 October 2008
The medium-term budget policy statement shows that robust policy decisions helped to weather the storm, writes Nic Dawes.
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/ 25 October 2008
The overall picture is that structural poverty and the inequality trap remain resistant to government’s best efforts.
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/ 23 October 2008
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel reiterated he is willing to serve another term if asked to, his spokesperson, Thoraya Pandy, said on Thursday.
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/ 22 October 2008
South Africa’s financial system is ” fundamentally sound and well capitalised”, according to the IMF’s Article Report released on Wednesday.
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/ 22 October 2008
South Africa ”stoically” resisted presenting a budget to drum up votes ahead of an election due next year, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel says.