South Africa has long been Africa’s leader in motor vehicle production, but that dominance is now being challenged by Morocco, while Algeria is starting to ramp up production from a smaller base.... 

The US is South Africa’s second-largest export market, after China. In 2024, South Africa exported goods worth R157-billion to the US, compared to R220-billion to China. Germany, the third-largest... 

The amount of gold produced by South Africa has fallen by 80%, plunging from 620 t in 1988 to 97 t in 2023. This does not mean there is no gold left in the ground. PwC reported in 2023 that South... 

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana avoided raising the personal income tax rate in his 2025 budget. Personal income tax collections as a percentage of gross domestic product are already higher than... 

South Africa’s gold mining industry has shed 80% of its workforce over the past three-and-a-half decades. In 1988, more than 536 000 people worked in the sector. By 2000, that number had more than... 

A significant portion of South Africa’s budget is spent on servicing debt – R389-billion in 2024, according to the National Treasury. This exceeds allocations for basic education (R323-billion),... 

Ember’s Global Electricity Review 2025 report states that 80 countries generated more than 50% of their electricity from clean sources in 2024. 

In 2018, around 90% of South Africa’s electricity was produced by burning coal in a fleet of ageing power stations, but the contribution of wind and solar to the electricity mix has been steadily... 

South Africa has 6 505 MW of installed renewable energy capacity that generates power for the national electricity grid, according to Eskom. Just over half (53%) of it is wind and 44% is solar,... 

South Africa has 6 505 MW of installed renewable energy capacity that generates power for the national electricity grid, according to Eskom. A key driver of renewable energy capacity has been the... 

Clean energy systems require critical minerals. There are five core critical minerals, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA): copper, cobalt, lithium, nickel, graphite and rare earths.  

There are 14.45-million registered taxpayers in South Africa. They are divided into nine income categories by the National Treasury. 

There are significant regional differences in women’s median earnings across the country, according to a Statistics SA report which tracks South Africans’ earnings between 2017 to 2022. Women in... 

Platinum and coal have outpaced gold in terms of people employed in South Africa. The country has more than 80% of the world’s platinum group metal deposits and the number of people working in... 

South Africa has lost over $1-billion in funding pledged by the US for the Just Energy Transition (JET). With this withdrawal, South Africa’s total pledged funding has decreased to $12.83-billion,... 

South Africans have shown a ‘boer maak ’n plan’ attitude in response to years of rolling blackouts, taking matters into their own hands by installing an estimated 6,178MW of rooftop solar power –... 

In 2021, at COP26 in Glasgow, the International Partners Group (France, Germany, the UK, the US and the European Union, along with Denmark and the Netherlands) initially pledged $8.97-billion to... 

There are 34 wind farms marked as 'operational' on the Department of Energy's database. These are adding a combined capacity of more than 3.3GW to South Africa's electricity grid. 

South Africa’s key focus areas for 2025 include energy, transport and logistics, youth unemployment as well as crime and corruption, according to president Cyril Ramaphosa. 

Remittances make up more than 5% of the national GDP of several larger African countries, including Morocco, Ghana, Egypt and Nigeria. The funds workers send back to their families are especially... 

South Africa’s inflation rate is easing, with 2024 recording an average inflation of 4.4%, down from 2023’s average of 6%, according to Statistics SA. 

The gap between the median monthly earnings of skilled and less-skilled workers in South Africa is widening, according to a report on earnings compiled by Statistics SA. 

South Africans are R2.3-trillion in debt, according to the National Credit Regulator’s consumer credit market report. This includes home and car loans as well as credit and store cards. 

South Africa has a pressing need to increase energy capacity. However, some of the country’s best solar and wind resource areas – the Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Northern Cape – have run out of... 

The number of private electricity generation projects in Limpopo is growing rapidly, making the province second only to the Northern Cape in capacity registered with Nersa, South Africa’s energy...