Monthly Archives: August 2018

A new Reuters poll published on Thursday (23 August), indicated that there was a ‘one in three chance’ of South Africa’s economy entering a recession this year. This after South Africa’s economy struggled to gain traction in the second quarter, after shrinking...

Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago has warned that nationalising the Reserve Bank could have dire consequences for the rand and the country’s economy. Speaking to the Sunday Times, Kganyago said "that central cause of Turkey’s financial crisis – which has fed fears it would...

Policy makers and researchers agree that a thriving SMME sector is the key to job creation in this country, but accessing finance, particularly in the early stage of a business, is very difficult. With the National Development Plan predicting that by 2030 SMMEs will generate 90% of the 11 million new jobs aimed for, the future...