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South Africa’s economy expanded by 0.8% during the second quarter of 2025, following a marginal increase of 0.1% during the first quarter.

Competition Competition has no evidence of rand manipulation, banks say

The commission says the case highlights the difficulty of prosecuting global and domestic cartels that exploit legal loopholes to delay proceedings

What goes up must come down: Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell leaves a news conference in Washington. The Fed’s hiking cycle contributed to the sudden collapse of tech
lender Silicon Valley Bank recently. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP

Banking shock exposes cheap cash addiction

The turmoil, which some say was inevitable given aggressive hiking cycles, exposes the dependency of advanced economies on cheap credit

Guebuza junior was found to have received $33 million to “move influence” with his father, and was sentenced to 12 years in prison. He intends to appeal. There is no word yet on whether his father will also be charged. Photo: Supplied

Son of former Mozambique president sentenced to 12 years in prison

No Credit Suisse executives have faced criminal prosecution, despite the company admitting liability

‘Mr 10%’: Former Mozambican president Armando Guebuza during the trial in a maximum-security prison in Maputo. (Alfredo Zuniga/AFP)

Former Mozambican president Guebuza turns on his successor

Armando Guebuza gave evidence in a corruption trial that has transfixed the nation

President-Kassym-Jomart-Tokayev. (Kazakhstan President Press Office/TA

Suisse Secrets: The Kazakhstan president’s offshore stash

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has sought to distance himself from his predecessor, but his family has its own secrets: Moscow apartments, Swiss bank accounts — and a money trail that…

Credit: James O’Brien/OCCRP

Suisse Secrets: How Credit Suisse became the bank of spies

During the War on Terror, international strategy relied on intelligence officials from regimes accused of corruption and torture. Several of these spies and their families held…

Credit: James O’Brien/OCCRP

Suisse Secrets: Bank financed Zimbabwean fraudster in deal that saved Mugabe

The Swiss Secrets leak reveals Credit Suisse’s role in a controversial platinum mine sale that helped to finance a wave of violence around Zimbabwe’s 2008 election

(Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

What the historic leak of Swiss Banking records reveal

Despite pledges by Credit Suisse to crack down on illegitimate funds, leaked data shows the bank catered to dozens of criminals, dictators, sanctioned parties and political…

Former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang. (Getty Images)

Mozambique wants Lamola to hand over top official behind bars on $2bn scam

Mozambique grows impatient for SA justice minister to rule whether former finance minister will be extradited to Mozambique or US to face corruption charges

Ronald Lamola is demanding that 013News retract an article suggesting he interfered in the decisions of the National Prosecuting Authority (Delwyn Verasamy/M&)

Lamola halts Chang extradition

Chang has been held in South Africa since December at the request of US authorities over alleged involvement in fraudulent loans to Mozambique SOEs

Chang was detained over alleged secret loans to state companies totalling $2-billion in a widening scandal that is set to shake the Frelimo party that has ruled since 1975. (Getty Images)

Mozambique ruling party grapples with state debt scandal

Former Mozambican finance minister Manuel Chang’s arrest at has triggered a political crisis ahead of the country’s elections later this year

QE has made the very rich even richer

Credit Suisse’s Global Wealth Report makes for interesting reading for those who suspect quantitative easing is more about propping up asset prices.

Inside information favours those setting the gold price.

1% own half the world’s wealth

Research by Credit Suisse shows that the world’s poor and middle classes have been squeezed to create more wealth for 1% of the population.

Investors saddled with reform risk

New regulations will require investors to bear the risk of South African bank failures.

Would-be US tax evaders could face the hot seat

Swiss banks have "allegedly" begun providing information to Washington on accounts held by United States citizens.

Bankers plot course as sovereign debt clouds loom

Europe’s top banks are due to meet to share insights on whether the latest sovereign debt crisis squall could yet turn into a financial market storm.

Slowing China car sales overshadow Detroit show

China posted a sharp fall in 2008 car sales growth on Monday as makers worldwide grapple with slowing demand.

US court allows apartheid lawsuit to proceed

The United States Supreme Court said on Monday that it cannot intervene in an important dispute over the rights of apartheid victims to sue US corporations in US courts because…

Central banks in mortgage crisis talks

Central banks on both sides of the Atlantic are in talks about the feasibility of mass purchases of mortgage-backed securities in a bid to solve the global credit crisis, the…

Credit-crunch woes claim fifth-biggest US bank

The global credit crunch claimed its biggest victim yet on Friday when the United States Federal Reserve orchestrated an emergency bail-out for Bear Stearns after a cash crisis…