THE Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) is in the process of setting up a modern railway technology known as the Futran System, an automated system that can take a payload of up to ...
The SADC Council of Ministers meeting, which kicked off on Tuesday has placed regional industrialisation at the centre of its agenda. In a media briefing, South African Minister of International Relat...
More than 225 applicants, mostly from Gauteng townships, have launched a suit in the Constitutional Court, claiming damages from the big banks for home repossession abuse.The applicants are claiming R...
INDUSTRY and Commerce minister Mike Bimha says he will justify the imposition of import restrictions when he meets his Sadc counterparts next week, adding that the affected countries should not cry fo...
Former South African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni has been removed from the board of directors of the New Development Bank - commonly known as the Brics bank - after two years. According to the ...
Southern Africa is most likely sitting on massive natural gas reserves of more than 600 trillion cubic feet which the region must exploit to reduce a heavy reliance on biomass energy, a top South Afri...
Thursday August 17 is D-day for Duduzane Zuma and Ajay Gupta, who are due to testify at the parliamentary inquiry into Eskom.The inquest into the state of affairs at the power utility officially start...
The rand bounced back on Friday morning after Thursday's surprise interest rate cut hit the South African currency, as analysts predict that a weak dollar and high risk appetite will outweigh local c...
The issue of crime in and around South Africa's busiest airport is being addressed at national level, with Minister of Police, Fakile Mbalula announcing added new measures to be put into place over th...
A Zimbabwean farmers' union leader warned white South African farmers they should agree a deal to share land with the black majority before they suffer the same fate as neighbors in Zimbabwe who were ...
SA Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago announced on Thursday that the Monetary Policy Committee has decided to cut the interest rates."The MPC has decided to reduce the repurchase rate by 25 basis...
The South African Chamber of Mines has taken legal advice following the notice by the Minister of Mineral Resources published in the Government Gazette yesterday (19 July 2017), which indicates that t...
Johannesburg - Ahead of the Monetary Policy Committee's (MPC) rate announcement, research analyst at Credit Suisse Carlos Teixeira unpacks four reasons why the Reserve Bank should consider a rate cut....
The South African Chamber of Mines advises that the Minister of Mineral Resources, Mosebenzi Zwane, has given a written undertaking that the Minister and the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR), wil...
Johannesburg - Former president of South Africa Thabo Mbeki has resurrected the ghosts of the ANC's elective conference in Polokwane, saying lies were used to oust him. Mbeki was speaking during a mor...
Zurich - Swiss luxury-goods maker Richemont's head of watchmaking, once seen as a candidate to lead the entire company, is leaving less than four months after a management reorganisation put him in co...
The International Criminal Court "is dangerous" and South Africa should withdraw from it, ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said yesterday.Mantashe was defending the government's decision not to ar...
JOHANNESBURG - The world's No. 1 platinum producer Anglo American Platinum plans to overhaul a number of its South African mines to make them more profitable in the face of depressed prices.Amplats, r...
The newly elected head of South Africa's biggest mine union said on Sunday that his members were still being paid "apartheid" wages, signaling a hard line ahead of gold sector wage talks due to start ...
Cell C Pty Ltd. is exploring options for the third-largest South African wireless carrier including a possible sale to domestic competitors, according to two people familiar with the matter.Cell C, wh...
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) is close to implementing a business visa for the region.Speaking at workshop to finalise policies and challenges hindering cross border movem...
JOHANNESBURG - Numsa announced yesterday that more than 220 000 of its members in the steel and metal workers sector would embark on a strike across the country this week."The national executive commi...
South Africa's annual inflation touched the upper limit of the central bank's target range in March, data showed Wednesday, raising expectations that the bank will hike interest rates next month.South...
The JSE's logo and colour palette moves to a bold black, white and green combination while the typography takes on a clean, digital feel. The revitalised brand follows on from an extensive brand audit...
Economic growth rate in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to rise from 4.7 per cent in 2013 to 5.2 per cent in 2014 boosted by rising investment in natural resources and infrastructure as well as st...