The rand raced to a more than eight-month high against the dollar on Friday, breaching the R14 mark for the first time since November partly due to data showing the fourth straight monthly trade surplus in June
The Financial Services Board said on Friday it is looking into a programming error that caused the JSE to miscalculate inflows into SA equities by R98bn. The JSE reported on Sunday that instead of foreigners
The pump price for a litre of petrol will be 99c/l cheaper for all grades from next Wednesday, while the price of diesel 0,05% sulphur and diesel 0,005% sulphur will decrease by 74c/l and 73c/l respectively. Motorists will now
A grade 12 pupil in Namibia’s Ohagwena Region has invented a Sim-less mobile phone that does not require airtime to make calls. According to a New Era report, Simon Petrus, a pupil at Abraham
The Electoral Commission of South Africa and Accenture have launched a mobile application designed to provide voters with the electoral information ahead of, during and after the municipal elections taking place
There’s little dispute that the South African rand is undervalued against other currencies. However, there is disagreement about the true extent thereof. One of the indications of the rand’s undervaluation
Six days before South Africa holds local government elections, the ANC trails the main opposition party in three key cities, including Pretoria and Johannesburg, according to an eighth and final public opinion survey
Google has spent years telling Wall Street its investments in non-advertising businesses will eventually pay off. Thursday’s results suggest that’s beginning to happen. Google parent Alphabet reported second
Cell C warned earlier this week that communications regulator Icasa’s proposed spectrum auction would serve only to entrench the dominance of South Africa’s two largest mobile operators, Vodacom and
Facebook shares jumped in late trading after the company reported second quarter revenue that beat analysts’ projections, lifted by surging sales of video and Instagram ads and a boost in users. Second quarter