The restructuring also created room for new strategic initiatives. During the period, Woolworths expanded through targeted acquisitions such as Absolute Pets and launched the Woolworths Ventures platf

South Africa's current account balance delivered a striking reversal in the fourth quarter of 2025, swinging from a revised deficit of R72 billion in the third quarter to a surplus of R50.2 billion, t

Ghana has pressed ahead with a new sliding-scale gold royalty regime that links state revenues to rising bullion prices, the head of its mining regulator confirmed to Reuters, defying a rare joint dip

Long-term capital formation remains the decisive variable. Large-scale mining requires stable exchange rate policy, predictable foreign currency retention thresholds and enforceable contract framework

The Competition and Tariff Commission (CTC) has greenlit the acquisition of Dendairy (Private) Limited by Vamara Group Limited, a subsidiary of the Mauritius-registered Export Trading Group (ETG), in

BAT Zambia, the country's only listed tobacco manufacturer and the dominant player in Zambia's formal cigarette market, has reported a year in which profit grew but the business shrank, a paradox that

Tongaat Hulett Developments Proprietary Limited, which holds property development assets, operates under a separate rescue plan adopted in May 2023 and is expected to continue unaffected by the THL pr

South Africa's Northern Cape is geologically part of the same Proterozoic tectonic system that hosts those world-class deposits, though its copper endowment has historically been smaller-scale and mor

A rand that depreciates meaningfully against the dollar would quickly convert the international oil price shock into a domestic fuel shock of the kind that pushed South African inflation to 7.8% at it

Cassava Technologies, the pan-African tech powerhouse rooted in Zimbabwe's Econet Wireless legacy, is launching its AI Factory in South Africa a high-density computing powerhouse fuelled by NVIDIA's a

Weeks after Zimbabwe announced a ban in the exportation of lithium concentrate, the Chinese government has responded to Harare, through a veiled circular by its consulate office in Zimbabwe. The emba

Ultimately, the ZiG remains an unreliable store of value and a symbol of the country’s economic mismanagement. If Zimbabwe’s currency had life and the backing it claims, it would have responded to the

The renewed focus on fossil fuels as a stable energy source amid global and domestic pressure has helped strengthen both Eskom’s performance and Salungano’s earnings. With higher coal production and

Regional expansion across the rest of Africa has accelerated, with operations in Kenya, Ghana and Ethiopia forming the core of ADvTECH’s international growth strategy. In Kenya, the group continued to

Thungela Resources, one of South Africa’s largest coal exporters, swung into a R7.1 billion loss for the year ended December 2025 from a R3.5 billion profit recorded in the prior year according to the

The outlook for the Group will continue to be shaped by its ability to execute across these interconnected layers. Chrome trading performance, project development in Zimbabwe, and the progression of d

Looking ahead, the trajectory of patient activity within Netcare’s network will be shaped by how these operational adjustments interact with ongoing changes in the medical scheme landscape. Capacity