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Intellidex found that wealthy Africans were most concerned about political risk and see it as a significant threat to the preservation of their assets.
Kganyago dismissed suggestions the central bank’s inflation-targeting mandate be broadened and that it undertake QE to support SA’s ailing economy.
South Africa’s biggest cement maker PPC is considering a rights issue of about R1.25bn to refinance both its domestic and international operations.
Rand Merchant Bank has been appointed as an adviser to help the government assess offers for stakes in its insolvent national airline SAA.
President Ramaphosa is reportedly preparing to ease South Africa’s lockdown restrictions, a sorely needed move for the country’s suffering businesses.
South Africa is in a “debt-trap twilight zone” that will cause of the cost of borrowing over 30 years to sharply steepen in the next year over that of 10-year debt.
David Maynier has called on Minister Thoko Didiza to urgently intervene in the repeated and at times unnecessary closure of the Cape Town Deeds Office.
New director of the UCT GSB, Dr Catherine Duggan, believes that business schools can play an important role in rebuilding in the wake of Covid-19.
A lawsuit aimed at enabling the City of Cape Town to tap more renewable energy from independent producers was initially filed in the High Court in 2017.
Given the lockdown restrictions, this year’s National Women’s Day will be celebrated virtually with Ramaphosa delivering his keynote address remotely.