MPC: Inflation risk expected to push Kganyago to hawkish tone
South Africa’s Reserve Bank will shift its message on Thursday to focus on the need to raise interest rates, two months after investors were expecting the next move to be down.
Alec Hogg’s regular column covering investment, economics, moneycraft and, occasionally, something very personal.
South Africa’s Reserve Bank will shift its message on Thursday to focus on the need to raise interest rates, two months after investors were expecting the next move to be down.
Germanwings budget flight 4U9525, carrying 144 passengers including 16 German teenagers returning home from a school trip, plunged for eight minutes before hitting the side of a mountain in the French Alps Tuesday with no survivors.
Alec was among those who were surprised when Advtech announced last August that its chairman, investment banker Leslie Maasdorp, would succeed long-time CEO Frank Thompson. He took over from 24 October. Just four months later, he’s gone.
Lee Kuan Yew, who helped transform Singapore from a colonial trading center into one of Asia’s most prosperous nations during 31 years as its first elected prime minister, has died. He was 91.
Putin’s sole pal is one Jacob G Zuma, President of South Africa. The video glorifies apparent Russian military prowess, ending with a chilling warning
South Africa is importing maize for the first time in 11 months as the worst drought since 1992 destroyed crops in the continent’s biggest producer, the biggest grain farmers’ organization said.
Alec Hogg reflects on the carnage that too often afflicts South Africa’s roads and families, taking inspiration from Bob Dylan’s iconic song ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’.
The fast-growing spicy-chicken chain has 1,100 locations in 22 countries, helping make its original backer, Dick Enthoven, a billionaire.
Greek lawmakers on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed an anti-poverty bill intended to provide economic support for families suffering financially, despite EU concerns that the country’s creditors were not consulted first.
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