The rand weakened slightly to R15,92/US$ at 9.55am ahead of President Jacob Zuma’s state of the nation speech on Thursday, which will be watched closely by local investors hoping for a sign
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An analysis of social media around this week’s constitutional court challenge by the Democratic Alliance and the Economic Freedom Fighters regarding the powers of the public protector shows the EFF dominating the conversation. This is
Government’s failure to get to grips with South Africa Connect, the nation’s ambitious broadband roll-out plan that promises to deliver high-speed broadband Internet connectivity everyone in South Africa by 2030, will be apparent to all during the state of the nation address
At least three top independent technology experts have resigned from a national broadband council amid allegations of insufficient guidance from government. The National Broadband Advisory Council was launched by former communications minister Yunus Carrim on 4 March 2014
Reacting to concerns that President Jacob Zuma’s public utterances are causing the rand’s slide, finance minister Pravin Gordhan told media on Thursday that the rand does not operate on what
Any expectations of a respite for the rand after last week’s beating were given a final nail in the coffin when President Jacob Zuma stated that the turmoil regarding Nenegate was not all that serious, and that markets did not understand what he was trying to do
South Africa is likely to fail in its quest to develop its nuclear energy capacity, according to emerging markets economist Peter Attard Montalto of Nomura. Montalto said that if the 9,6GW nuclear procurement programme does see the light of day, it will be a “slimmed down programme spread
Huge Group, Adapt IT and Net1 UEPS Technologies top the list of the best performing technology shares on the JSE in 2015. In a difficult economic environment, the three counters have far outperformed the overall market, adding 95,2%, 58,5% and 55,5% respectively over the past 12 months
In an effort to avoid more student protests in 2016, government will make more than R4,5bn available to the National Student Financial Aid Scheme to provide short-term debt relief to students, the presidency said on Friday. According to a report compiled
South Africans trust Eskom marginally more than President Jacob Zuma, according to an Ipsos survey. Zuma scored 53,1 out of 100 (with 100 signifying a perfect reputation), while Eskom scored 53,4 points. The poll was done through 3 617 face-to-face interviews with randomly selected