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Economy and business Trends: Our core inflation is holding steady with little sign of a reduction in interest rates following shortly. The US inflation rate...

Economy/business Trends: The first quarter, economically speaking, has come and gone. Data from Stats SA show a steep drop in manufacturing output, primarily owing to...

Gentle Reader   SWMBO and I will be celebrating her birthday and taking two weeks off to stiffen my practice resolve. I will miss an...

Business Economic trends (grim and getting worse): Our economic growth is painfully slow (the World Cup bank is optimistic in setting a recovering growth rate...

Soweto has one of the fastest appreciation rates in Johannesburg, with homes in the area doubling in price over the past ten years. This is...

ActionSA today unveiled our plan to ignite South Africa’s economic growth and address the country’s housing crisis by reclaiming hijacked and abandoned buildings and factories...

Business Trends: Our SARB Governor says that our economy is not growing – at 0.6% growth thus far this year – and our living standards...

Gentle Reader, Last weekend I attended a local boeredag on the far side of the Boereworsgordyn, which reinforced my local detribalisation. SWMBO and I approached...

Business and economy The good news (ignoring angst): The inclusion of this portion of my newsletter was prompted by my perception, 28 years ago, that...

Due to high finance costs unless the central bank starts to aggressively cut interest rates, executives of the country’s top two property groups said. Earnings...