South African bonds stayed in demand on Thursday as markets priced in expectations that government efforts to reduce the...
Feb 22, 2018
Ratings agencies Fitch, Moody's and S&P Global all applauded South Africa's budget where the Treasury raised value a...
Governments across sub-Saharan Africa are hitting international debt markets hard and fast to try to beat rising borrowi...
Kenya began a dollar bond sale on Wednesday that analysts said could reach $3 billion, hours after the International Mon...
South Africa's headline consumer inflation slowed to 4.4 percent year-on-year in January from 4.7 percent in December, d...
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) expects financial closure on the $400 million recapitalisation deal with the Dia...
ECONET Media’s pan-African media company Kwesé TV has acquired a significant stake in iflix Africa to form part of its d...
Homelink Finance Services has set aside over $10 million to enhance the export capacity of small to medium enterprises (...
LOCAL farmers have spent $8,4 million importing livestock breeding stock over the last three years as part of effort...
South Africa expects it could take 18 to 24 months for S&P Global and Fitch to return the country’s credit rating to...
Government has proposed a one percentage point increase in the value-added tax (VAT) rate to 15%. The increase was wide...
An IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Advisory Mission to Mozambique, conducted as part of a project to support A...
The Mozambican government has announced a five per cent increase in the price of kerosene, taking effect on Wednesday, b...
The government will pay 17 percent of the state’s debt to private sector suppliers this year, Deputy Minister of Economy...
Kenyan mid-tier Commercial Bank Africa (CBA) has acquired Crane Bank Rwanda from Uganda’s Dfcu Bank (USE:DFCU). CBA s...
Zambia's central bank continued to ease its monetary policy stance by cutting its policy rate and the reserve requiremen...
Glencore and Randgold Resources are among major mining companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo clubbing together i...
Feb 20, 2018
The Mogalakwena platinum mine lived up to its reputation of being the most profitable platinum group metals (PGM) mine o...
Anglo-American Platinum’s local unit Unki mine produced a record 165,900 platinum group mineral ounces in 2017, an incre...
The Mozambican government plans to surrender management of nine national airports to private companies as a way of impro...
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
