01/08/2020
Eight of its twenty top emerging-market shares - as screened by quantitative measures like valuations, earnings growth and dividends - are from South Africa.
01/07/2020
The role of the impact investor is different from a classic investor. Firstly, the impact investor expects real and tangible social impact from its investments, without which the goal of financing won't be achieved.
01/07/2020
This will have two major influences on the banking landscape; namely, causing continuous client behaviour changes and constituting the building blocks for the digitisation of the banking industry landscape.
01/06/2020
“Those who are beneficiaries of this exercise will receive up to 170% increase in their salaries and benefits, whilst a good number have been moved to higher grade levels.”
01/06/2020
The race is on for the first locally-built African super app — that is, one that offers users seamless access to a number of services, often across several verticals.
01/06/2020
This sent mixed opinion from sector players on if this should have any implications on loan prices.
01/03/2020
It brought the sobering realisation that President Cyril Ramaphosa would have his work cut out for him if he hoped to get South Africa back on the mend.
01/03/2020
Here are Disrupt Africa’s five biggest developments of the last 12 months.
01/03/2020
While they were still uncertain whether Finance Minister Tito Mboweni would announce another increase in VAT, the economists agreed that fuel levies, sin taxes and possibly personal income tax would be increased.
01/03/2020
The need for a social compact in South Africa, where all stakeholders concede to enduring some of the short term pain has never been more urgent.
01/03/2020
Labour and pensioners will continue to have reasons to commend the President given what he said about them in his New Year (2020) address: “Workers will have a living wage and pensioners will be looked after.
01/02/2020
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index has been released for 2020, and there is a healthy contingent from South Africa - here's the richest of our lot.
01/02/2020
It also ensures that any economic growth filters through to wealth creation.
01/02/2020
Indeed, Environmental Social and Governance considerations now sit at the heart of that process.
01/02/2020
This will fuel our managed growth strategy and deepen the growing cooperation with institutional investors in the Gulf region.”
12/31/2019
In Tanzania, 3,000 jobs were created from 19 projects.
12/31/2019
There are concerns that 2020 may be another difficult year for growth, with consensus that the country is facing a number of factors dragging down GDP.
12/30/2019
In order to minimise the impact of these tax increases it will be essential to utilise all possible strategies to optimise individual tax positions via a combination of retirement products, tax free investments, Section 12J investments and endowments.
12/30/2019
Fintechs focused on sub-Saharan Africa account for 16, or a third of the 50 companies selected for the list, followed by 20% who say South Asia is their exclusive market.
12/30/2019
The ICIEC President told stakeholders at the forum that he was encouraged by the pace of Islamic finance development in Nigeria, especially in the area of Sukuk origination.