Africa’s infrastructure requirements are estimated to be between $130billion (R1.6trillion) and $170bn, far higher than...
Jan 19, 2018
JSE-listed retail stocks rallied yesterday after Statistics South Africa posted an 8.2% year-on-year growth in retail tr...
ZIMBABWE’S national statistics agency this week moved to defend official inflation data following criticism that its fig...
Ethanol fuel blending saved the country an estimated $26,5 million in 2017, representing 2,65 percent of the import bill...
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa says his country is open for business and that all foreign investment is safe, w...
Local milk processor, Dendairy, will expand its plant operations by setting up two new factories as the company seeks to...
China's agriculture production costs are set to rise fairly quickly in 2018, pushed up by higher fertiliser and pesticid...
Jan 18, 2018
South African retail sales rose by 8.2 percent year-on-year in November, beating expectations by far, after increasing b...
Copper resumed its decline on Wednesday as some speculators took profits from a December rally and others went short aft...
Malawi's consumer inflation slowed to 7.1 percent year-on-year in December from 7.7 percent in November, official data f...
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi stressed in Maputo on Wednesday the willingness of the Mozambican government to work w...
On Wednesday, the price of gasoline was going up in Mozambique, while the price of cooking gas (LPG) was coming down, th...
Barclays Africa yesterday launched its 2017/18 Macroeconomic report which covered key issues affecting the economy from...
Kenyan investors will be able to lend and borrow shares from each other from June, with the NSE set to roll out a system...
President John Magufuli and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, have agreed to start the construction of the standard...
Prospect Resources’ flagship lithium deposit has been identified as a priority mining development by Zimbabwe’s Office o...
Botswana’s Okavango Diamond Company (ODC) posted a 4% jump in sales to $567-million in 2017, the highest annual sales si...
Zimbabwe will not stop using “bond notes”, a domestic quasi-currency, until the economy fully recovers, Finance Minister...
Local firm, Baldmin Projects has been awarded a multi-million-dollar contract in Tanzania to design, manufacture, instal...
Government is this week expected to gazette the Ziscosteel Debt Assumption Bill to facilitate the takeover of $380 milli...
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
When Invictus Energy, an Australian-listed junior explorer, first announced it had struck a discovery of gas-condensate and light oil in the Cabora Bassa Basin of Zimbabwe, it felt like the birth of a
First Quantum Minerals, one of the world’s leading copper producers and Zambia’s single largest taxpayer in the mining sector has entered into a binding agreement to sell its Çayeli copper-zinc mine i
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
CEC Renewables Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of CEC PLC and a pivotal player in Zambia's burgeoning green energy sector, has reported a robust 63% surge in profit after tax for the year ended Dec
Gold prices have continued their relentless climb, reaching US$5,222 per ounce by late February 2026, marking a 5% gain for the month and a remarkable 20% year-to-date increase, according to W
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
