Finance

Former ANC Eastern Cape treasurer Babalo Madikizela’s lobby group is said to have been behind the decision by senior party members to chuck out police during the closed sessions of the provincial conference held at the East London International Convention Centre over the weekend. This is according to ANC National …

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, U.S. President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, France’s President Emmanuel Macron and Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishidameet pose for a family photo at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, …

Chapter 3: The Rapid Growth of Fintech: Vulnerabilities and Challenges for Financial Stability Fintech can increase efficiency and competition and broaden access to financial services. However, the fast growth of fintech firms into risky business segments—and their inadequate regulation and interconnectedness with the traditional financial system—can have financial stability implications. …

Critical companies in our mining and resources sector have been sounding the alarm about Transnet for many months now. With ailing infrastructure and the usual failings of government, our ability to cash in on the global commodity boom has been hamstrung by the railways and ports. In 2021, 58.3Mt of …

We’re all good at fooling ourselves from time to time, especially when it comes to things that we think we can easily get away with, like skipping a session at the gym (under the guise that we’ll work extra hard the next time) or overspending on that big-ticket item (with …

Roth IRA, high-yield savings account and mutual funds were just a few of the phrases regularly thrown around my family’s dinner table when I was growing up. I didn’t realize it then, but having a parent who worked as a financial advisor for several years meant that I was gaining …

With Westfield Malls’ European owner announcing it’s looking to unload its portfolio of American malls by next year, the outlook seems grim for U.S. shopping malls amid the e-commerce boom. However, consumer and retail expert Natalie Kotlyar, managing partner at BDO USA, believes malls still have life left in them. …

The Green Connection has lodged an appeal against the authorisation granted to Tosaco Energy by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) to proceed with seismic blasting in Block 1, from Alexander Bay to Hondeklip Bay off the West Coast. This comes just months after environmental groups and communities …

Twelve automotive associations have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to drive the development of the automotive industry in Africa. The automotive sector, whilst key for the industrialisation of Africa, is often associated with numerous challenges, including market fragmentation; a lack of regulatory alignment between African countries, as well as …

Covid-19 will continue to dominate headlines in 2022, but from National Health Insurance to the availability of a new HIV prevention injection, it will also be an important year for other areas of health service delivery and for health system governance and reforms in South Africa. Here is Spotlight’s pick …