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Economy and business   Trends: Our Rand flattered but deceived: it strengthened but is again weakening on the back of the usual including, surprisingly, a...

Economy and business   Trends: The African Development Bank opined that our GDP rate for this year should weaken to 0.2% – the IMF says...

Economy and business Trends: Our Consumer Confidence Index is at its second lowest level on record. For all practical purposes we are in a technical...

Tiger’s Milk recently opened in Hilton, KZN Midlands. Tiger’s Milk menu takes pizza, grills, burgers and beer to the next level. They are big on...

Economy/business   Little interesting news is available on our economic front. The following graph gives our expected GDP growth by the IMF: Other than the...

Economy In GEAR? Definitely not: our state is flirting with a recession owing primarily to politics which restrict our growth possibilities. The latest and most...

Gentle Reader   My fiancé (shortly to be SWMBO) and I are en route to a momentous birthday, son number one’s wedding, and my belated...

Economy/business   The IMF has cut its forecast for global GDP in the next two years by 0.1 percentage and, worse, warned that South Africa’s...

Economy and business   The PIC says that blackouts has reduced the size of our economy by a fifth since 2008. This ,and other policy...

Gentle Reader I spoke to an old friend a week ago who asked why I trifle with business and economic news, given that this is...