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June 27, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice

Economy Our economy is recovering and so is our Consumer Price Inflation rate: speculation holds that the Reserve Bank is expected to begin to hike...

June 20, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice

Economics   You would, no doubt, have seen that our economy is now predicted to grow at some 5% this year. The interesting thing about...

June 13, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice

Economy   Progress: is unlocking embedded power generation not perhaps a catastrophe? Much has been made of the surprise move to increase the generation threshold...

Battery repacking for your household appliances

  Mr Battery is a well known one stop battery centre, situated on the corner of Boshoff and Boom street’s, in Pietermaritzburg. We stock a...

Landlords likely to have stricter credit and rental checks after Covid-19 financial impact

South Africa’s rental market is likely to show only very minimal growth – if any – due to the current combination of high vacancy rates...

Here’s how South Africa’s property market has changed at the start of 2021

The demand for homes priced at less than R2 million is expected to remain ‘very lively’ in 2021 as long as interest rates remain at...

April 19, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice

Property   House prices are again rising: the FNB’s House Price Index shows an appreciation of 4.5% y-o-y for March: the rise is attributed to...

April 11, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice

Economy   The NUM wants a wage increase of some 68% for the lowest paid miners, up to a minimum wage of R15K per month,...

March 21, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice

Economy What budget? The ink on the latest budget is hardly dry when we have Ace encouraging students to stand up for their rights to...

February 28, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice

Economy The Rand and our bourse strengthened post Budget, positive growth figures were bandied about and things appeared rosy. Inexplicably (really?) economists are wary (...