Rising unemployment reduces tax revenue and increases social spending, straining government budgets. In South Africa, worsening joblessness adds pressure, likely hindering efforts to narrow the ...

JOHANNESBURG, April 30 (Reuters) - The South African rand slipped on Wednesday following mixed local economic data and as the dollar gained after data showed the U.S. economy contracted in the first ...

South Africa's economy experienced its strongest growth in two years during the second quarter of 2025, driven by significant ...

Deputy President Paul Mashatile defends the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) policy, claiming its removal would be a regression to apartheid.

South Africa's unemployment rate is among the highest in the world, with millions of South Africans struggling daily to find jobs and make ends meet. According to Trading Economics, the country's ...

PRETORIA, March 4 (Reuters) - South Africa's economy returned to modest growth in the fourth quarter of last year, helped by a recovery in agricultural output after the sector triggered a contraction ...

The Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for August 2025 indicates a worrying decline, slipping into contractionary ...

Old Mutual was established in Cape Town in 1845 as South Africa’s first mutual life insurance company. Today, it is a ...

The fifteenth edition of the South Africa Economic Update, Learning: Overdue Reforms and Emerging Priorities in Basic Education, discusses South Africa’s economic prospects and focuses on basic ...

Some months after Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February 1990, he told businesses that South Africa must “deracialise the exercise of economic power”. Such words unnerved the ...

A recent report by CareerJunction has shown that certain jobs in South Africa have seen a growth-spike over the past few ...