Five Newsworthy Things in SA 6th February 2024:

News in South Africa 6th February: 1. Consumer relief on the horizon: Battered by low wage growth, high interest rates, and increasing debt levels, many South African consumers are in the worst financial shape they’ve been in for years, maybe even decades. The result is a persistently weak economy. This faltering economy, driven mostly by […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 8th January 2024:

News In South Africa 8th January: 1. Elections pose major risk to economy: South Africa’s upcoming national elections pose a major risk to the local economy, with policy uncertainty remaining elevated and investors wary of investing in the country entering uncharted political waters.  This risk was highlighted by the North-West University (NWU) Business School in […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 5th December 2023:

News in South Africa 5th December: 1. Load shedding causing mass unemployment: Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said over 800,000 South Africans stand to lose their jobs due to load-shedding. The Minister recently spoke to Eskom employees at Medupi Power Station, which recently experienced several breakdowns that plunged the company into elevated load-shedding levels. “When Medupi coughs, […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 18th October 2023:

News in South Africa 18th October: 1. Water infrastructure collapse: South Africa’s deteriorating water infrastructure threatens to plunge the country into widespread social unrest as taps run dry in some of the country’s largest cities.  This is feedback from water expert and University of the Free State professor Dr Anthony Turton, who told Newzroom Afrika that “we […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 11th October 2023:

News in South Africa 11th October: 1. SA is falling apart: South Africa is falling apart, with unreliable electricity, poor railways, ports which do not function properly, a dilapidated road network, and deteriorating state finances. Late last month, Transnet CEO Portia Derby and CFO Nonkululeko Dlamini resigned, with Transnet Rail CEO Siza Mzimela following suit […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 31st August 2023:

News in South Africa 31st August: 1. Rand falls after record budget deficit: The rand dropped, underperforming most emerging-market peers, and yields on South African local-currency bonds rose after data showed the government ran a record budget deficit in July. The rand weakened as much as 0.8% against the dollar after National Treasury figures showed […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 28th August 2023:

News in South Africa 28th August: 1. Investors on edge: Capital markets are on edge over South Africa’s deteriorating fiscal outlook, say economists at the Bureau for Economic Research (BER), with government data on revenue expenditure out later this week likely to be of particular interest to investors. National Treasury is due to release its […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 25th August 2023:

News in South Africa 25th August: 1. South Africa’s ‘true’ crime stats: Stats SA has published the latest Victims of Crime (VoC) survey, showing that thousands of crimes continue to go unreported in South Africa, skewing the true reflection of serious crimes in the country. The survey comes less than a week after the latest […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 7th June 2023:

News in South Africa 7th June: 1. Eskom tames load shedding: Power utility Eskom says that recoveries in generation capacity will allow it to suspend load shedding every day until the evening peak. The group said that load shedding will be suspended between midnight and 16h00 on Tuesday (6 June), followed by stage 3 load […]

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Five Newsworthy Things in SA 19th May 2023:

News in South Africa 19th May: 1. Price of water has tripled in the past decade: While most of the attention has been on the skyrocketing cost of electricity, especially as load shedding has become a near-permanent feature of daily life, the price households are paying for water has increased by significantly more in the […]

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