When South Africa began its lockdown period at the end of March, state-owned utilities that were already on the back-foot...
Mining giant Anglo American plans to exit coal mining in South Africa, in a major shift away from carbon-intense operations....
The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits topped 3 million for a seventh straight week, signaling little relief in...
The novel coronavirus pandemic is disrupting the illicit drug trade through increased border controls, reduced air traffic and supply shortages,...
South Africa's business confidence plunged to an all-time low in April, as the nationwide lockdown imposed in late March to...
South Africa's annual house price growth fell to 1.9{e93887a69cdd95d753f466db084bbc3aa0067124675315461d28d68a72842cc2} in April, down from 2.5{e93887a69cdd95d753f466db084bbc3aa0067124675315461d28d68a72842cc2} (revised from 2.8{e93887a69cdd95d753f466db084bbc3aa0067124675315461d28d68a72842cc2}) in March, according...
The probability of Stage 1 load shedding was reduced to a mere three days for the first quarter of the...
The International Monetary Fund approved $739 million in emergency funding for Kenya and $491.5 million for Uganda and said the...
Lockdowns have been instituted in countries across the world, limiting the movement of people, and raising the question of the...
To history buffs, the Covid-19 pandemic must seem eerily familiar. Almost exactly a century ago, another respiratory virus ripped across...