# The Black Business Council is hosting its Annual Summit, bringing together key government ministers and business leaders to discuss fostering inclusive growth and addressing challenges facing black businesses. President Elias Monage emphasised the two-day summit’s aim to look into socio-economic transformation supporting women, youth, and black owned business funding, as well as the government’s […]
# VN Handel en Ontwikkeling, Unctad, het gewaarsku die wêreldwye oseane-ekonomie staar toenemende druk in die gesig weens omgewings- en politieke skokke. Die organisasie het in sy wêreldhandelsverslag vir Junie 2025 die belangrike rol van oseane in werksgeleenthede, voedsel, innovering en handel beklemtoon. Die sektor is 39-biljard-rand werd en ondersteun 100-miljoen werksgeleenthede, maar verkeer in […]
# Die Duitse kanselier, Friedrich Merz, vergader vandag met die Amerikaanse president, Donald Trump. Dit word gesien as ‘n poging om persoonlike bande te bou ten spyte van hul verskille rondom Oekraïne en ‘n dreigende handelsoorlog. Merz is nou ‘n maand in sy amp, en hoop sy beloftes om Duitsland se besteding op NAVO-verdediging te […]
# German chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to meet with US president Donald Trump today, hoping to build a personal relationship despite discord over Ukraine and the threat of a trade war. A month into his job, the conservative Merz will hope that his pledges to sharply increase Germany’s NATO defence spending will please Trump, […]
# UN Trade and Development has warned that the global ocean economy faces mounting pressure from environmental and political shocks. In its Global Trade Update June 2025 report, the organisation emphasised the ocean’s vital role in jobs, food, innovation, and trade. Valued at 39-quadrillion-rand and supporting 100-million jobs, the sector faces risks from climate change, […]
# ʼn Senior FNB-ekonoom, Koketso Mano, sê met die oes van somergewasse in volle swang sal die jongste verlaging van die brandstofprys boere se winsgrens verhoog omdat dit ongeveer 13-persent van graanboere se insetkoste uitmaak. Albei grade petrol kos vyf-sent per liter minder terwyl die dieselprys met 37-sent per liter daal. Mano sê die sitrus-uitvoerseisoen […]
# Die EFF sê hulle verwerp die verslag van die Parlement se staande komitee oor Finansies, wat die 2025 Fiskale Raamwerk en Inkomstevoorstelle insluit wat verlede maand deur die minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, ter tafel gelê is. Die goedkeuring van die fiskale raamwerk is ‘n sleutelstap in die begrotingsproses. Die raamwerk stel ekonomiese beleid […]
# FNB senior economist, Koketso Mano, says with harvesting of summer crops in full swing, the latest fuel cut will boost farmers’ profitability as it accounts for almost 13-percent of input costs in grain production. Both grades of petrol have gone down by five cents a litre. Motorists are also now paying 37-cents less for diesel […]
# The EFF says it firmly rejects the report of Parliament’s standing committee on Finance, which adopted the 2025 Fiscal Framework and Revenue Proposals tabled by Finance minister Enoch Godongwana last month. The passing of the fiscal framework is a key step in the budgeting process. The framework establishes economic policy and revenue projections and sets the […]
