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South Africa

recession reckoning

South Africa’s economy is not out of the woods yet

The South African economy grew more than expected in the second quarter of 2019, narrowly avoiding a technical recession. ...

Diminishing returns

Prosus investors must understand Tencent’s uphill struggle

The legendary status of Tencent as an investment within the portfolio of the South African holding company Naspers risks blindsiding investors ... considering exposure through the listing of the stake in Amsterdam.

Race against time

Eskom reform is key to avoiding Moody’s South Africa downgrade, Afreximbank says

South Africa still has the chance to avoid a Moody’s downgrade if progress made at state electricity utility Eskom continues, says Hippolyte ... Fofack, chief economist at the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank).

Rocks off

De Beers is a victim of its own innovation as diamond sales slump

So, diamonds are not forever. They’re only until the laboratory comes up with something cheaper. ...

national obsessions

South Africa: The white spies of apartheid

In his new book, “Betrayal: The Secret Lives of Apartheid Spies”, award-winning journalist Jonathan Ancer explores why it is that spies spy. ...

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naspers payout

Shareholders challenge Naspers’ executive pay structure

The annual general meeting of global internet group Naspers once again threw the spotlight on the relative lack of maturity in South Africa’s ... executive pay structures.

federal dreams

Cameroon: Should South Africa push for intervention?

Felix Agbor Balla Nkongho is a leading Cameroonian lawyer and award-winning human rights advocate. Nkongho was detained for nine months for taking ... part in protests against the marginalisation of the legal and education systems in the English-speaking regions of Cameroon.

playing with fire

South Africa is close to ‘junk status’ from all three rating agencies. What comes next?

Evidence from around the world suggests that economic crisis often follows unanimous junk ratings. ...

till death

Shoprite slumps as consumers struggle in Angola and Nigeria

Shoprite is feeling the pinch of troubled economies in key markets ...

Don't cry for us

Standard Bank ends its Argentine adventure

Africa’s leading bank, the Standard Bank Group, will sell its remaining stake in ICBC Argentina to its Chinese partner, the Industrial and ... Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) for $181-million, thus completing its refocus on Africa that began in 2011.

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