Economy
Mabuza: The more people who vaccinate, the better our economy performs
On Wednesday morning, Mabuza led the launch of a government campaign targeted at the sporting and creative industries in Johannesburg.
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Stats SA: Despite growth, economy still smaller than pre-COVID levels
The entity on Tuesday reported that the economy had grown by 1.2% in the second quarter of the year.
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JEREMY CRONIN: Why the South African state is incapacitated
Centralised control of public administration has delivered a civil service that can shrug off accountability and ignore the real needs of citizens, who are treated as ‘customers’.
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Crisis-hit Lebanon to reopen classrooms starting in September
Rights groups have decried an 'education catastrophe', with more than a million children in Lebanon out of school since the country's COVID-19 outbreak began in February last year.
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Intra-Africa Trade Fair sees offers to help boost Ghana, SA’s trade
Ghanian officials have on Thursday told the fair that the deal can be used to boost certain industries including infrastructure.
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SA shoppers earning R10k+ prioritise prices through sales, new study finds
The annual BrandMapp study surveyed this section's consumer behaviour after the 2020 hard lockdown was lifted and businesses were allowed to start operating again.
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: Changed behaviour can alleviate lives & livelihoods trade-offs
The climb in new COVID-19 cases has been extraordinary. It increased more than fifteen-fold from the last low point, writes President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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UK inflation surges to 2.1% as economy reopens
"This month's rise was led by fuel prices which fell this time last year, but have jumped this year thanks to rising crude prices. Clothing prices also added upward pressure as the amount of discounting fell," remarked ONS chief economist Grant Fitzner.
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Disappointing April jobs data pose new challenge for Biden agenda
The weak hiring also pushed the unemployment rate up slightly to 6.1%, according to the Labor Department's monthly employment report released on Friday.
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China factory activity rises but analysts warn of 'fragile recovery'
Non-manufacturing PMI made a significant rebound to 56.3, higher than the Bloomberg forecast of 52.0 and pointing to better performance in industries like construction and higher expectations for hard-hit service sectors.
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Ramaphosa: We need to buy local again to get economy moving
Ramaphosa said government plans to increase local procurement even further over the next five years.
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Cosatu: 2021 Budget is divorced from the reality for ordinary citizens
Cosatu’s Matthew Parks said South Africa not only had a debt crisis but was in its worst economic recession in 100 years.
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Rescued vegetables allay South Africa's virus-linked hunger
Days earlier, the cabbage and pumpkin on her plate were strewn in a pile of discards from South Africa's largest fresh produce market, waiting to be incinerated.
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CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: COVID-19 recovery requires difficult decisions to be taken
While our temporary COVID relief measures have helped, the country will not be able to sustain them indefinitely, writes Cyril Ramaphosa.
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Sona2021: More vaccines, speeding up economic recovery, fighting corruption
The president's announcement on the imminent arrival of more than 40 million doses of vaccine will be welcomed after problems emerged with the efficacy of AstraZeneca’s vaccine.
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China GDP grows at slowest pace in more than four decades in 2020
The 2.3% expansion is the lowest figure since the Chinese economy embarked on major reforms in the 1970s.
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US loses 140,000 jobs in December, unemployment 6.7%: govt
"The decline in payroll employment reflects the recent increase in coronavirus (Covid-19) cases and efforts to contain the pandemic," the Labour Department said.
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YONELA DIKO: SA's economic fate is in the ANC's hands
Highly developed economies cannot falsely claim they became strong without government internventions, writes Yonela Diko.
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Business sector concerned about little being done to improve investor confidence
Although Finance Minister Tito Mboweni listed efforts to restore business confidence in the country the organisations said this was not enough with government failing on the implementation front.
