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Sanlam today announced that the board has approved new appointments in three of its most senior positions in the diversified financial services group.
A bad start to the year for stocks? That hasn’t applied to Naspers, as the coronavirus lockdown drives demand for online services and entertainment.
What’s the cost of becoming junk? South Africa lost its last investment-grade rating late on Friday when Moody’s Investors Service cut it to Ba1.
South Africa’s National Treasury sees the downgrade of the country’s debt to junk by Moody’s Investors Service as an opportunity to fix the economy.
President Ramaphosa met the 114 South Africans who have been in lockdown, first in Wuhan for some 51 days and then in Polokwane for 14 days.
Moody’s heaped more pain on an economy already in recession and now staring down the barrel of a steep contraction over the global coronavirus pandemic.
One of the unintended consequences of a lockdown is migration and that means transmission, says the National Institute for Communicable Diseases.
SEACOM says due to issues on the West coast undersea cable many African ISPs and their customers could be experiencing unstable or slower internet speeds.
Billionaire Patrice Motsepe’s family and companies in which he has shareholdings pledged to spend R1bn on fighting the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa.
Moody’s Investors Service cut South Africa’s credit rating below investment grade, delivering the country a full house of junk assessments as it grapples with a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.