A survey undertaken by Sirdar Group has found that boards with at least one independent director are outperforming boards without one and that independent directors seem to be essential to keeping... 

Despite the contribution of the construction sector to local economic activity being inconsistent, and having decreased significantly over the years, Constructional Engineering Association (CEA)... 

South Africa’s official unemployment rate decreased marginally by 0.4 of a percentage point to 27.1% in the final three months of 2018, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported on Tuesday. The... 

The International Air Transport Association (Iata) on Wednesday released its 2018 full year data for global air freight markets, which showed that demand, measured in freight tonne kilometres... 

Global coalition against corruption Transparency International on Tuesday released its 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index, and gave South Africa a score of 43 out of 100, unchanged from 2017. The... 

The South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) and the Brookings Institution’s Africa Growth Initiative (AGI) launched the Foresight Africa report on Monday, in Johannesburg,... 

There are consistent trends in the 2018 and 2019 results of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC’s) annual CEO survey, with global CEOs – including those based in South Africa – plagued by pessimism and... 

The seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) ended 2018 on a positive note, reaching the best level of the year – 50.7 – in December. This was an improvement from the 49.5 recorded... 

November inflation ticked up to 5.2%, according to data released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) on Wednesday.  This is up from inflation of 5.1% recorded for October.  

Business conference among South African companies edged up just slightly in November, with the momentum seen since September slowing, a survey showed on Thursday. The South African Chamber of... 

While some subindices showed an increase from the third quarter, the Agbiz and Industrial Development Corporation’s Agribusiness Confidence Index weakened to 42 in the last quarter of the year,... 

The South African economy has officially exited the recession after reporting 2.2% Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth for the third quarter of the year, Statistics South Africa announced on... 

A recent Ernst & Young (EY) survey shows South Africa has retained its position as the top foreign direct investment  destination in Africa, but Morocco has caught up with it, the country's... 

The decision by the South African Reserve Bank to raise the repo rate will be hard-felt by consumers, most of whom are already struggling to make ends meet, a financial service provider said on... 

Cryptocurrencies, which are blockchain-enabled and digitally encrypted representations of financial value, are gaining more prominence among the general populace and have moved beyond solely... 

South Africa's central bank on Thursday raised the benchmark repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.75% despite weak economic growth, saying delaying the adjustment could cause inflation expectations to... 

South Africa's central bank is likely to keep interest rates unchanged on Thursday as inflation remains contained within target while economic growth is worryingly anaemic. The South African... 

Irregular expenditure for national and provincial government departments, as well as State-owned entities audited by the Auditor-General amounted to R51-billion and counting, it was revealed on... 

Consumer price inflation rose to 5.1 percent year-on-year in October 2018 from 4.9 percent in September, Statistics South Africa said on Wednesday. On a month-on-month basis, the consumer price... 

The Automobile Association (AA) announced on Thursday that, based on current data, motorists could expect ‘massive drops’ in the prices of petrol and diesel for December.  The association is... 

The revenue for South African municipalities is expected to rise to R431.5-billion in 2019/20 and R462.5-billion in 2020/21 from a budgeted R404.6-billion for 2018/19, the National Treasury said on... 

The African population in Gauteng has a quality of life index score that is below the provincial average and is not catching up with white South Africans, who are seeing larger gains in measured... 

In an inaugural report on the state of gender diversity on JSE-listed companies’ boards of directors, only 10 of the 267 companies analysed achieved gender parity in 2017. There are, however, signs... 

Ratings agency Moody’s, which still rates South Africa at investment grade after peers Fitch and S&P Global cut it to 'junk', says the revenue projections in the medium term budget policy statement... 

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on Wednesday said he would strive to protect the National Treasury from political interference but conceded that he would be naive to think he could succeed. "I... 

The Consumer Price Inflation remained at 4.9% in September 2018, unchanged from August 2018, Statistics SA said Wednesday morning. "The consumer price index increased by 0.5% month-on-month in... 

The recently released United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) Trade and Development Report for 2018, entitled ‘Power, Platforms and the Free Trade Delusion’, outlines a number... 

The use of census data, and modern cloud-based software, as a tool in urban growth modelling is a sustainable route for long-term urban planning, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research... 

The World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) latest findings in its Global Competitiveness Report for 2018/19 again raised several flags about factors in South Africa’s economic performance, which are having... 

South Africa now ranks 110 out of 162 as an economically free country, according to the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index. The Free Market Foundation (FMF) revealed on Wednesday that South... 

In marking the tenth anniversary of the largest financial crisis since the Great Depression, the Bureau for Economic Research (BER) has looked back at the performance of the South African economy... 

The Jobs Summit, which will kick off later this week, is a joint effort by various stakeholders to find solutions to South Africa’s unemployment crisis. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the... 

Trade under hyperglobalisation has failed to foster broad-base structural change in developing countries and has contributed to increased worldwide inequality, the United Nations Conference on... 

Employment in South African's non-agricultural formal sector dropped by 69 000 between March and June 2018, Stats SA announced on Wednesday in its  latest Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES)... 

There has been a very good increase in the value of buildings completed in larger municipalities during the second quarter of this year, to the tune of almost 7%, which presents a recovery from the...