Regional
1 year ago | February 7, 2023
SA’s coal export snags worsen as rail shipments slump
Bloomberg Rail disruptions on the key line to Africa’s biggest coal-export terminal are intensifying, choking off more ...
Rand hits weakest level this year
AFP, Reuters and News24 By Monday midday, the rand sank to R17.60/$ as the dollar continued to gain after a ...
1 year ago | February 3, 2023
Perceptions Index reveals vicious cycle of corruption
The 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released this week by Transparency International shows a dire situation in ...
SA budget: Little room for hikes
The current economic environment does not bode well for tax hikes, according to a tax expert. At Deloitte’s panel ...
Angola’s peatlands cleaning the region’s water
Ask most people what they picture when thinking about natural “carbon sinks” — ecosystems that absorb and store ...
Equatorial Guinea calls for balanced, diversified energy matrices
Under the theme, OPEC, Africa and Equatorial Guinea: Why we need to continue investing in African energy, the petroleum ...
Eskom crisis: Warning of ‘huge risks’
South Africa is drawing skepticism over its plans to declare a state of disaster to help tackle crippling blackouts, ...
SA’s largest wind farm planned for Mpumalanga
Seriti has signed a landmark power purchase agreement (PPA) which will see the construction of a 155MW wind power ...
1 year ago | February 1, 2023
IMF slightly boosts SA growth forecast for 2023 despite load shedding
Bloomberg Despite record levels of load shedding, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects South Africa’s ...
1 year ago | January 30, 2023
Yellen to meet with donors, private sector on SA’s energy transition
Bloomberg US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen met with local officials in South Africa’s coal mining region of ...
1 year ago | January 27, 2023
Continued need for liquidity instruments for IPPs
Obbie Banda The African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) issued the fifth policy under its Regional Liquidity Support ...
High inflation still hitting consumers hard
While the easing of inflation from 7,4 percent year-on-year in November 2022 to 7,2 percent in December has been ...
Africa startups defy funding slump
African startups more than doubled the amount of debt they raised last year, a surge that may continue as an economic ...
S. Africa partners US to combat illegal wildlife trade
US and South African authorities will share financial intelligence to combat wildlife trafficking, a move aimed at ...
SA favour US, shun Russia in clash with policy bias
More than a third of South Africans would choose to work and raise their families in the US while a tiny fraction chose ...
1 year ago | January 26, 2023
JSE loses ground, even as global stocks conclude volatile week on ...
Global stock markets rebounded on Friday after a rocky week dominated by uncertainty over whether the global economy ...
1 year ago | January 25, 2023
Renewables revolution offers brighter future for SA’s small ...
Pieter Bensch South Africa’s shortfall of power generation capacity has reached beyond crisis levels. We’ve ...
1 year ago | January 23, 2023
Anglo turned blind eye to Zambian lead poisoning, court hears
Bloomberg South Africa’s High Court was told that Anglo American turned a “blind eye” to lead poisoning in the Zambian ...
1 year ago | January 20, 2023
Nigeria enhances climate resilience
Increasing climate variability in Nigeria is causing more intense and untimely rainfall. Adding to land degradation, ...
New era for global business, investment in Africa
At a time of multiple, overlapping global challenges — from climate change to energy shocks to rising inflation and a ...
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