South Africa’s rand is on a weekly winning run not seen in more than two decades as elevated precious-metal prices and an ...

Recent social media posts claiming that the Social Relief of Distress Grant is ending are false. However, it remains unclear ...

Walmart, which launched in South Africa at the end of 2025, has significantly lower prices on everyday products than Checkers ...

South Africa’s formal non-agricultural employment is at its lowest level since 2010, highlighting an economy unable to absorb ...

Farmers are calling for the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak to be declared a national disaster in terms of South Africa’s Disaster Management Act. The Southern Africa Agri Initiative (Saai) said ...

South Africa finds itself in a delicate balancing act, having to navigate carefully between a more protectionist United States and expanding its trade with emerging economic blocs. While United States ...

Billionaire Patrice Motsepe and companies linked to him have been accused of “court shopping”, among other claims, amidst a R3 billion mining dispute. These claims, related to a recent lawsuit filed ...

Only one public school has been built in Johannesburg and Ekhuruleni in the past eight years, located in the northern part of the City of Ekhuruleni. Due to the closure of five public schools during ...

While South Africa’s economy is unlikely to see a boom in the coming years, the country is on the right track to escape the stagnation it has endured for the past decade. South Africa’s economic ...

The South African rand is back to where it was ten years ago, when it also traded at around R16.40 to the US dollar. What was then seen as a disorderly weakening of the currency due to South Africa ...

South African motorists are set for more petrol and diesel price cuts at the pumps in February, as a strengthening rand offsets a rise in oil prices. Furthermore, despite several geopolitical shocks ...

South Africa’s share of global gross domestic product (GDP) declined from 0.54% in 1994 to 0.37% thirty years later. This shows that South Africa’s economy did not keep pace with the rest of the world ...