Former South African President Jacob Zuma remains in the hospital, according to a statement from his family foundation, contradicting an earlier news report that he’d been discharged. The Jacob G Zuma...
Botswana and a group leading the race to buy De Beers are near an agreement on their future ownership stakes in the diamond miner, potentially paving the way for Anglo American Plc to finally exit the...
Formula 1 will return to Africa, with the first race scheduled to take place in Rwanda in the early 2030s. The East African nation will host the Formula 1 African Grand Prix under a 10-year agreement,...
Mauritius, an Indian-ocean island nation best known for its white-sand beach resorts, has been rocked by its worst riots since 1999. Demonstrations that erupted last week over water shortages and livi...
Mauritius, an Indian-ocean island nation best known for its white-sand beach resorts, has been rocked by its worst riots since 1999. Demonstrations that erupted last week over water shortages and livi...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi positioned India as a reliable partner in an increasingly uncertain world, warning that the supply chains, trade and technologies that once connected countries are ...
Treasuries advanced as trading resumed after a long weekend, with a selloff in global equities fuelling demand for haven assets. The 10-year US yield slid as much as 5 basis points to about 5.19% on T...
The US-led global order “is over” and the world has entered a period of heightened geopolitical uncertainty, former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Tuesday. President Donald Trump is “not a cause o...
LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE offered a closer look at the deepening Chinese luxury slump this week, revealing that sales on the mainland dropped by double digits in the third quarter while the ...
President Donald Trump dismissed concerns that Russia and China might be helping Iran in its war with the US, adding that the two countries would have “too much to lose” in aiding the Islamic Republic...
The International Monetary Fund said global growth should pick up next year with a boost from AI investment, but warned the world economy is nearing the limits of its resilience as the energy squeeze ...
Saudi Arabia intercepted more ballistic missiles launched by Yemen’s Houthis, a sign the confrontation with the Iran-backed militant group is far from subsiding. The Houthis targeted Riyadh and Khamis...
A barrage of drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia has intensified pressure on Washington to step up efforts to help its close ally battle Iran-backed Houthi militants in neighbouring Yemen. The d...
French high school students are set to hit the streets on Tuesday, extending their movement into a third week with no clear response from policymakers to their demands in sight. A student-led protest ...
Oil slipped following three days of gains that were driven by concern the widening war in the Middle East could hamper a recovery in supply from the region. Brent fell toward $105 a barrel after risin...
Twenty-four Chinese-owned clothing manufacturers in Newcastle have agreed, effectively, that they have no labour law “amnesty” and cannot keep the clothing bargaining council’s inspectors out of their...
The rise in AI stocks does not appear to be a bubble, international investors sometimes rate South Africa’s fundamentals more highly than locals do, and global markets are doing well despite the rise ...
The unlawful occupation of about 2 000 hectares of state-owned land at Knoflokskraal near Grabouw in the Western Cape is heading back to court as the government seeks a lasting solution. Some of the l...
Discount retailer Boxer, majority owned by Pick n Pay, remains firmly on track to hit 1 000 stores in the medium-term, having opened its 600th outlet in the 26 weeks to 30 August. It added 24 new stor...
Meat importers in a submission to the government are arguing there is no evidence there should still be tariffs on frozen bone-in chicken imports from Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. ...
Tencent Holdings Ltd. told fixed-income investors Monday that its planned bond offering of about $5 billion will help finance AI-related capital expenditures, people familiar with the matter said, as ...
Two US-based academics who reframed the thinking of John Maynard Keynes after the oil crises of the 1970s won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Robert E. Hall of Stanford University and Michael Woodford ...
Beijing police opened a criminal investigation into companies affiliated with Chinese wealth management firm CreditEase over suspected illegal financial activities. Police didn’t specify the exact cha...
Japanese Trade Minister Ryosei Akazawa called for stronger cooperation between oil-producing and consuming countries as well as greater oil stockpiling and infrastructure development in Asia, seeking ...
South Africa’s manufacturing output falls 4.3% year on year in August, as Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic) Minister Parks Tau visited Bell Equipment and Mondi South Africa in KwaZulu-Natal on 9 ...
This weekend’s deadly attacks on Riyadh’s main airport have demonstrated the ability of Yemen’s Houthis to strike at the heart of Saudi power, raising the risk of a dangerous escalation that could dra...
The Saudi-led military coalition fighting the Houthis said it intercepted missiles and drones aimed at the kingdom overnight, including areas that are home to some of Saudi Arabia’s key oil and gas fa...
The JSE Top40 records its lowest weekly close of the year. Buying opportunity or cause for concern? Nick Kuze from Sanlam Private Wealth weighs in, and US earnings season kicks off with the banks. ...
Global central banks are likely to head into 2027 with even tighter monetary-policy settings to keep inflation at bay. A year that began with the prospect of interest rates drifting lower across major...
The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF), which represents many medical schemes, has said households cannot keep absorbing the rising costs of medical scheme increases or moving to lower benefit options ...
The board of the Insurance Sector Education and Training Authority (Inseta) has dismissed CEO Gugu Mkhize with effect from 9 October following an investigation into her conduct. In a statement issued ...
The CEO of Shoprite, Pieter Engelbrecht, received “total earned remuneration” of R117.79 million in the 2026 financial year, an increase of 35% on the prior year’s R87 million. The sharp increase was ...
US President Donald Trump fumed at the Norwegian committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize, saying the fact it didn’t go to him “is just another sign of how Norway and all these others are ripping o...
The 43 private- and public-sector economists taking part in this year’s BMR/Unisa Economist of the Year Competition do not expect a rate hike for the remainder of 2026. These economists make monthly p...
While motorists cannot control the price at the pump, Santam says that there are practical ways to minimise transportation costs without disrupting your daily routine. Here are some tried and tested w...
The formal launch of the Africa Credit Rating Agency (AfCRA) has required considerable institutional commitment. It brings to fruition an effort that has been almost a decade in the making. In 2017, ...
The man stopped by the authorities at a Lagos airport on a Wednesday in mid-August said he’d come to Nigeria to open a restaurant. Drug-enforcement agents had a different story. They’d spent months h...
Porsche AG plans to increase prices of its top-end sportscars by an average of 20%, including the introduction of a new model that will sit above the longtime flagship 911 in the lineup, as it seeks t...
Sandra Ortega, Spain’s richest woman, has spent most of her life in the small northwestern town of Oleiros, a windy place overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. The 58-year-old is so intensely private and li...
In southern Africa, the El Niño – caused by warmer sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean which affect air pressure and wind directions – usually brings below-average summer rainfall and increa...