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Africa is home to seven of the 10 fastest growing economies globally. This section of Biznews targets existing and potential investors into the African continent. Editors curate the most important news about African business, infrastructure development and investment, including emerging market essentials, trade and development, economic insights, SADC, ECOWAS and EAC region reports.
Two decades after President Robert Mugabe wrecked Zimbabwe’s economy by urging black subsistence farmers to violently force white commercial farmers and their workers off their land, his successor has thrown in the towel.
Small informal retailers are a ubiquitous feature of any developing country’s urban landscape, and are known as spaza shops in South Africa.
Cathy Buckle says food aid supposed to feed the hungry is diverted to the black market by corrupt officials and sold in Zimbabwe’s neighbours.
Western Cape farmers have long born the brunt of accusations of the exploitation of farm labour, not least of all because of the notorious dop system.
Political analyst Mandisi Majavu says a Makhanda High Court ruling to dissolve the Makana municipality is an example that should be followed everywhere.
Douglas Gibson asks: Where have our teachers and nurses gone?
South African taxpayers are squeezed hard – harder than most, and get very little back from the government in exchange for money paid into the fiscus.
In this special podcast, RMB’s Dylan Stevenson shares the story of the R2.4bn expansion of the Fourways Mall, doubling the centre to a 180,000 square metre giant.
Food insecurity affects millions of South Africans, but you’d think that a university student on a government bursary would be among the privileged few to escape.
In this insightful interview with Greg McKenzie, head of RMB’s Aviation division, we get the back story to the bank’s breakthrough into the global aviation’s big league through its co-funding for Virgin Atlantic of two A350-1000s, whose ticket price comes in at almost $200m each.