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1 year ago | April 3, 2023

Khaya Cement names CEO 

Business Writer Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe Limited has appointed Innocent Zulu Chikwata as substantive chief executive ...

1 year ago | March 31, 2023

‘Zim to be net exporter of grain’

The secretary-general of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), Wamkele Mene has said the AfCFTA Secretariat ...

SA public wage: How much do state nurses, porters and cleaners earn?

If unions accept the government’s latest pay deal, nurses, cleaners and porters at state hospitals will have less money ...

Botswana tests De Beers pact by buying stake in Belgian gem trader

Botswana will acquire a 24 percent stake in Belgian gem trader HB Antwerp, in a deal that could challenge the southern ...

1 year ago | March 29, 2023

Ramaphosa asks ports operator for plan to end logistics crisis

Bloomberg South African President Cyril Ramaphosa directed executives of state-owned rail and port operator Transnet to ...

1 year ago | March 27, 2023

Zim, Comesa sign pact to build Chirundu border market

Business Writer Zimbabwe and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) have signed a US$988 972,12 ...

1 year ago | March 24, 2023

Farms in cities: New study offers planners and growers food for ...

Urban agriculture as a global phenomenon is widely promoted as a sustainable land use practice. On small plots and in ...

Putin suggests free grain for Africa

Russia laid out conditions on Monday for agreeing to any further extension of the Black Sea grain deal, and President ...

Civil Society Organisations pile pressure on AfDB to publicise ...

Wallace Mawire       Several Civil Society Organisations from Africa and a few international organisations submitted a ...

Things are bad in SA, but fund managers are still choosing local

The outlook for the South African economy may be dire, but the same is not true for its financial markets, asset ...

1 year ago | March 17, 2023

SA economy: Battered and bruised, but not broken

According to Stats SA Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the broadest measure of economic activity, declined by 1,3 percent ...

Economy would’ve hit 10pc growth in 2022, but for Eskom and Transnet

The SA economy should have grown by nearly 10 percent in 2022, but instead scraped by at 2 percent growth for the year. ...

Absa reiterates commitment to debt-hit Ghana

South African big-six bank Absa says it remains committed to Ghana for the long haul, even as it raised nearly R3 ...

1 year ago | March 15, 2023

Why big local investors still back SA Inc. stocks

Dirk Jooste News24.com It can be extremely challenging for South Africans to distance themselves emotionally from ...

1 year ago | March 14, 2023

Women`s Political Exclusion in Nigeria

Tapiwa Peter Njiva and Chantel Mandonye           From the birth of democracy women in ancient Athens to the modern era, ...

1 year ago | March 13, 2023

SA banks bleed after US lender slumps 60 pc

The world’s biggest banks took a stock market beating on Friday as signs of trouble at a US regional lender ...

1 year ago | March 10, 2023

Why food prices are so high in South Africa

Food price inflation in South Africa has continued to shoot up despite headline inflation easing over the last few ...

SA economy contracts on intensifying power outages

South Africa’s economy shrank more than expected in the fourth quarter, when the state-owned power utility intensified ...

Anti-coal protesters target Mantashe

Environmental activists disrupted a speech by South Africa’s energy minister to protest against the country’s continued ...

Recession in USA, benefits for SA

Research by the world’s largest financial institutions seems to support our view that the monetary policy tightening ...