Global trade is expected to continue growing this year but at a slower pace after reaching a record high in 2025, as rising protectionism, geopolitical tensions and tighter regulation reshape trade... 

Cape Town International Airport saw a record-breaking 11.1-million two-way domestic and international passengers during 2025, and also surpassed its December 2024 international passenger record.... 

Cyber-enabled fraud has become a pervasive global threat, which also underscores the growing societal and economic impact of fraud as it spreads across regions and sectors. Geopolitical... 

South Africa continues to lead Africa’s renewable-energy transition, offering a growing range of investable opportunities in wind, solar, biofuels and green hydrogen, according to the latest Forvis... 

Financial services firm Absa’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) decreased further by 1.5 points to 40.5 points in December and remains firmly in the range indicating contraction. However, an... 

Financial information, analytics and market intelligence company S&P Global’s South Africa Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) ended 2025 in its weakest position for the year. The headline PMI dropped... 

In the fourth quarter of 2025, the average inflation expectations of the three professional groups surveyed by research organisation the Bureau for Economic Research (BER) subsided significantly.... 

National statistics agency Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) says manufacturing production increased by 0.2% year-on-year in October, with eight of the ten manufacturing divisions reporting... 

Strategy consulting business PwC Strategy&, in its December ‘South Africa Economic Outlook’ report, says South Africa’s real GDP per capita declined by a cumulative 4.2% over the past ten years.... 

Global trade is on course to exceed a record $35-trillion this year, a 7% year-on-year increase, according to global trade organisation UN Trade and Development’s (Unctad's) year-end ‘Global Trade... 

Strong investment in power infrastructure drove a 2.2% increase in global energy employment in 2024, but rising labour shortages now pose a risk to future project delivery, according to the... 

Business confidence in South Africa’s manufacturing sector rose significantly in the fourth quarter, according to the latest Absa Manufacturing Survey, signalling cautious optimism among... 

The Afrimat Construction Index (ACI) recorded a double-digit quarter-on-quarter increase for the third quarter, representing a significant improvement over the second-quarter results. This... 

South African firms saw a further decline in business conditions in November, signalling a weak end to 2025 after the contraction in October. Output and new orders decreased for a second month... 

National Treasury has published the 2025/26 Medium Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework (MTREF) operating and capital budgets of municipalities, which shows that the aggregated budgeted revenue... 

South Africa’s seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell by 7.2 index points to 42 in November, with Absa reporting that the decline was driven by deteriorations in four of the... 

South Africa recorded a preliminary trade balance surplus of R15.6-billion in October. This surplus was attributable to exports of R192.2-billion and imports of R176.6-billion, including trade with... 

Trade conditions remained in negative territory in October, with the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) Trade Conditions Survey at 46, below the neutral level of 50. The average... 

As South Africa hosts the G20 leadership summit this week, President Cyril Ramaphosa has positioned the moment as evidence of national progress. Yet the broader economic picture remains mixed, with... 

South Africa’s manufacturing production increased by 0.3% year-on-year in September, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reports. The largest positive contributions were made by the motor vehicles,... 

South Africa’s manufacturing sector slipped back into contractionary territory in October, with the seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), published on November 3, falling to... 

Financial services firm PPS Investments, in its ‘Investment Perspectives’ report for the third quarter, says it expects the environment to remain noisy, but benign, over the coming quarters and for... 

The Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Export Index shows that exports by South African SMEs to the US have dropped by 46% since April, with small direct-to-consumer businesses hit hardest,... 

Energy sector organisation the Energy Council of South Africa welcomes the rise in business confidence to 121.1 in September, as reported by the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry.... 

Last week, Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) reportedly handled 100 158 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) and 27 879 fully-built units (FBU) across automotives. In the same week, the Ngqura Container... 

Industry association the World Steel Association (worldsteel) projects global steel demand to be flat at about 1.75-million tonnes this year, compared with 2024. Demand is, however, expected to... 

Cape Town’s new Household Survey shows that private vehicles remain the dominant form of transport in the city, with 48% of households making use of this mode, followed by minibus taxi at 29.8%,... 

South Africa's manufacturing production decreased by 1.5% year-on-year in August, with the basic iron and steel, nonferrous metal products, metal products and machinery division and the food and... 

Cape Town’s new Household Survey shows that private vehicles remain the dominant form of transport in the city, with 48% of households making use of this mode, followed by minibus taxi at 29.8%,... 

The global economy is entering a period of weak growth and systemic disruption, according to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) latest ‘Chief Economists’ Outlook’, published on September 23. The... 

South Africa’s telecommunications sector ranked lowest in customer sentiment across all major industries in 2024, professional services firm PwC’s South African Telecommunications Sentiment Index... 

South Africa’s automotive market built momentum this year, supported by a favourable interest rate environment, record-low new-vehicle inflation and liquidity from the two-pot pension reform, but... 

The Afrimat Construction Index (ACI) recorded a solid recovery in the second quarter, with several key indicators having made a strong rebound since the first quarter of the year. The index,... 

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has reported that manufacturing production decreased by 0.7% year-on-year in July. Stats SA industry statistics director Nicolai Claassen notes that seven of the... 

New car sales of Chinese brands have skyrocketed and vehicle trading company AutoTrader’s latest Mid-Year Report shows that sales of Chinese brands rose by 89% in the first half of this year, led... 

Lower inflation would help to reduce inflation expectations and inflation over the long term and, ultimately, lead to lower interest rates, which would benefit consumers by lowering debt-servicing... 

Expanding on the scope of its inaugural 'Essential Food Price Monitoring' (EFPM) report, launched in 2020, the Competition Commission has restructured the report into the ‘Cost of Living (COL)’...