# Standard Bank Africa Regions and Offshore chief executive, Lungisa Fuzile, has urged African leaders and businesses to turn the continent’s challenges into opportunities for growth. Speaking at the Africa Unlocked 2026 conference in Cape Town, Fuzile said the African Continental Free Trade Area, infrastructure investment, energy security and artificial intelligence are vital to economic […]
# Skeepsverkeer deur die Seestraat van Hormoes het feitlik tot stilstand gekom nadat Amerika Iran die tweede agtereenvolgende dag aangeval het, wat die brose skietstilstand toenemend wankelrig laat lyk. Skeepsnasporings-data toon waarneembare bewegings in die wêreld se belangrikse energie-roete kom grootliks voor in die noorde, wat deur Iran beheer word, terwyl dit stil is in […]
# Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz came to a near standstill after the US struck Iran for a second straight day as a fragile truce between the two sides looked increasingly shaky. Ship-tracking data shows observable movements in the world’s most vital energy conduit largely occurred along an Iranian-approved route nearer to the waterway’s […]
# Manufacturing industry bodies have urged the National Treasury to clarify comments suggesting manufacturing may not be South Africa’s main source of future job growth. Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa, the Manufacturing Circle and Polasa say manufacturing remains vital for industrial development, exports and economic resilience. They warn that mixed policy signals […]
# South Africa’s wind energy sector could increase its workforce by up to 400-percent by 2042 if planned renewable energy expansion continues. The world’s leading wind turbine manufacturer, Denmark’s Vestas, says industry employment could grow from three-thousand-750 to more than 20-thousand jobs. However, the company warns that policy certainty, a predictable procurement pipeline and expanded […]
# Die EFF sê die Nasionale Tesourie moenie ʼn pad volg wat die staat laat ineenstort en tot blote toeskouer verlaag nie. Die party veroordeel die Tesourie se besluit om 69 munisipaliteite se befondsing van altesaam 13,5-miljard-rand weens nienakoming tydelik te weerhou. Die EFF sê om die fiskale krisis op te los, stel hy voor […]
# The EFF has warned National Treasury against pursuing what it calls a path that seeks to collapse the state and reduce it to a mere spectator. The party has condemned the Treasury’s decision to temporarily withhold 13.5-billion-rand in local government equitable share transfers from 69 non-compliant municipalities. The EFF says to resolve the fiscal […]
# Die Internasionale Monetêre Fonds sê Suid-Afrika se groeivooruitsig sal waarskynlik bestendig bly en verbeter te midde van versterkte beleidsraamwerke en voortgesette strukturele hervorming. Die IMF verwag die land se ekonomiese groei sal vanjaar op 1,1-persent dieselfde wees as in 2025. Dit bly egter laer as die Suid-Afrikaanse Reserwebank se skatting van 1,2-persent. Die IMF […]
# Die burgemeester van Johannesburg, Dada Morero, sê finansiële beheermaatreëls het verbeter ten spyte van toenemende skuld- en diensleweringsdruk. Die Nasionale Tesourie het tydelik 13,5-miljard-rand se toekennings teruggehou wat bedoel is vir 69 munisipaliteite landwyd, insluitend 3,6-miljard-rand vir Johannesburg. Die doel is om fiskale dissipline te vestig en munisipaliteite te dwing om ongemagtigde, onreëlmatige, vrugtelose […]
