Diamonds are set to slump further, according to a hedge fund whose bet on marijuana made it the world’s best performer i...
Jan 19, 2018
The Tax Authority of Mozambique (AT) collected gross revenue of more than 202 billion meticais last year [more than US$3...
South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday called on prosecutors to act urgently in pursuit of a firm ow...
Africa’s infrastructure requirements are estimated to be between $130billion (R1.6trillion) and $170bn, far higher than...
JSE-listed retail stocks rallied yesterday after Statistics South Africa posted an 8.2% year-on-year growth in retail tr...
ZIMBABWE’S national statistics agency this week moved to defend official inflation data following criticism that its fig...
Ethanol fuel blending saved the country an estimated $26,5 million in 2017, representing 2,65 percent of the import bill...
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa says his country is open for business and that all foreign investment is safe, w...
Local milk processor, Dendairy, will expand its plant operations by setting up two new factories as the company seeks to...
China's agriculture production costs are set to rise fairly quickly in 2018, pushed up by higher fertiliser and pesticid...
Jan 18, 2018
South African retail sales rose by 8.2 percent year-on-year in November, beating expectations by far, after increasing b...
Copper resumed its decline on Wednesday as some speculators took profits from a December rally and others went short aft...
Malawi's consumer inflation slowed to 7.1 percent year-on-year in December from 7.7 percent in November, official data f...
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi stressed in Maputo on Wednesday the willingness of the Mozambican government to work w...
On Wednesday, the price of gasoline was going up in Mozambique, while the price of cooking gas (LPG) was coming down, th...
Barclays Africa yesterday launched its 2017/18 Macroeconomic report which covered key issues affecting the economy from...
Kenyan investors will be able to lend and borrow shares from each other from June, with the NSE set to roll out a system...
President John Magufuli and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, have agreed to start the construction of the standard...
Prospect Resources’ flagship lithium deposit has been identified as a priority mining development by Zimbabwe’s Office o...
Botswana’s Okavango Diamond Company (ODC) posted a 4% jump in sales to $567-million in 2017, the highest annual sales si...
Glencore Plc, the Switzerland-based mining and commodity trading group listed in London and Johannesburg, will begin trading in Sydney on October 14, widening its investor base as it advances multibil
Caledonia Mining’s Blanket Mine now needs its strongest quarter of 2026 to recover from a deep-level mining bottleneck that cut access to higher-grade ore, reduced gold production and forced managemen
About three quarters of everyone admitted into Zimbabwe’s prisons during the second quarter of 2026 entered without a sentence, placing court processing, bail and remand management at the centre of th
he Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority has reduced diesel prices to US$2.04 per litre and petrol blend to US$2.05, effective October 8. The cuts provide limited savings for businesses and households,
Zimbabwe has separated the person selling the investment story from the person controlling the public purse, placing businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei in charge of Economic Development and Investment Pr
Fidelity Life Assurance’s core insurance operation moved into loss in the first half of 2026 as higher claims and a rising loss component pushed insurance service expenses above insurance revenue, lea
Lithium products overtook platinum group metals as Zimbabwe’s largest mineral export category excluding gold and silver, generating approximately US$2.16 billion in the nine months to September 2026.
Zimbabwe’s covered formal-sector employment contracted by 1.2% year on year in the first quarter of 2026 even as workers recorded a sharp recovery in earnings, exposing an economy that is rebuilding p
