South Africa has shed 58,000 jobs in the past year: Stats SA
By Staff WriterJune 27, 2017  South Africa shed close to 50,000 jobs in the last quarter, and almost 60,000 in the past year, new data released by Stats SA has shown. As many as…
Economy
These charts show the dire state of SA economy
21.6.2017 08:46 am Hilton Tarrant President Jacob Zuma. (Photo by Gallo Images / Thapelo Maphakela) There is bad news all around. There is not an awful lot of good news about. And every time we…
How ANC plans to take SA from capitalist to state-managed economy
Jan 31 2017 07:46 Liesl Peyper RELATED ARTICLES Alternative agendas threaten ANC leadership race ANC leaders worry corruption is corroding authority to govern SA banks becoming battleground in Zuma war – analysts Ruling the media…
Middle class families squeezed by ‘double taxation’
17.6.2017 09:16 am Michael Kransdorff  An illustration of wealth tax. File photo 22% income tax, but an effective 51% tax rate. South Africa’s upper middle class are under substantial financial pressure as they pay…
Be careful of continuing down this path you’re on
Ricardo Hausmann | 09 June 2017 Ricardo Hausmann warns that RET may lead to loss of vital know-how through emigration and exclusion, as happened in Venezuala Is South Africa about to make an historic mistake?…
South Africa Officially Enters Recession… and Rand Drops
By SAPeople – Jun 6, 2017 CAPE TOWN – South Africa is officially in recession, for the first time since 2009, with the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) having contracted to -0.7% in the first…
Msholozi and his hit men
2017-06-04 06:02  President Jacob Zuma.  Tebogo Khaas South Africa’s current economic woes can largely be blamed on the vagaries of globalisation and failure by the ANC government to implement its much-vaunted economic policies….
Free State dairy project damned in treasury investigation
Sam Sole, Tabelo Timse, Stefaans Brümmer 07 Feb 2014 00:00  A gate to Vrede, the farm given by the government to private company Estina rent free. (Delwyn Verasamy, M&G) A controversial R570-million Free State…
Downgrade blues set to descend on SA again
BY ASHA SPECKMAN, 2017-05-28 00:03:00.0 South Africa may be booted off the key Citi World Government Bond Index should either S&P or Moody’s downgrade the local currency to junk. Image: Brendan McDermid/REUTERS South Africa may…
The hypocrisy of Zuma’s cabinet-reshuffle exposed
May 23, 2017 MUST READ: President Jacob Zuma It would seem that mum’s the word for Msholozi right now, whether it be reasons for recalling Gordhan and Jonas from their international roadshow (sub judice) or…