HSBC and the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) will jointly provide funding to trade transactions valued at up to $1-billion, in a move to help fill a gap in financing for... 

The Department of Small Business Development has launched a new entity, the Small Enterprise Development and Finance Agency, or Sedfa, with the aim to scale up support to small businesses or micro,... 

Building materials and hardware supplier Buco has opened a new convenience store in Strijdom Park, Randburg. The store, which had a soft opening about two months ago, was officially  declared open... 

A significant non-tariff barrier (NTB) that business in Africa faces is infrastructure deficiencies, which is hampering growth, specifically for the 16 landlocked countries in Africa that are... 

South Africa has signed a pledge with the US city of Atlanta, Georgia, to encourage increased US investment in South Africa and vice versa. The signing took place at a trade and investment seminar... 

World trade is on track to reach a record $33-trillion this year, but risks of expanded trade wars and ongoing geopolitical challenges cast uncertainty over the outlook for 2025, says global trade... 

Supply chain management and logistics company Super Group’s 53.58%-owned subsidiary SG Fleet has entered into a scheme implementation deed with Westmann Bidco, an entity owned and controlled by... 

National Treasury has noted Moody’s decision to affirm the country’s long-term foreign and local currency debt ratings at Ba2 – otherwise known as non-investment grade or junk status – and maintain... 

US President Joe Biden landed in Angola on Monday for a visit focused on a US-backed railway project and on the legacy of slavery, but his decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden threatened to... 

Long simmering tensions in South Africa’s steel sector appear to be coming to a boil following a joint statement by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and ArcelorMittal... 

Pending the outcome of an investigation by the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac) into the alleged dumping of structural steel products imported from China and... 

Johann Rupert, chairperson and founder of Richemont, said the extension of a trade pact that gives South Africa and more than 30 other nations from the continent duty-free access to the world’s... 

Indian power generation company NTPC has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South African State-owned utility Eskom to exchange knowledge and collaborate on research and development... 

South Africa’s largest sources of foreign investment, including the US, the UK and Germany, are entering 2025 with mixed fortunes. With great uncertainty about the US economy in 2025, the economic... 

South Africa will issue import permits for genetically engineered white and yellow corn from the US after a mid-summer drought that caused 22% drop in local production. South Africa’s Department of... 

The South African Institute of Auctioneers (SAIA) has published a comprehensive new booklet to simplify the auction process for buyers, sellers and the general public. The ‘SAIA Auction Information... 

The motor vessel United Heavy Lift Fresh berthed at the Durban Container Terminal (DCT) Pier 1 last week to deliver the first nine of 16 Liebherr rubber-tyred gantry crane (RTG) component batches.... 

Business organisation Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) CEO Busi Mavuso says the appointment of Ebrahim Rasool as the next ambassador of South Africa to the US is good news because South... 

Edenvale-based steel supplier SteelTech Trading is one of two companies that will benefit from a significant enterprise and supplier development (ESD) programme, which has been launched by Astec... 

The electric steel producers of South Africa are calling on government to keep the export tax on scrap steel in place as it helps ensure the viability of greener domestic steel production by... 

Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau has said that measures such as the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism introduced by the EU need to be challenged by developing economies at the... 

Think tank the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) has called for an overhaul of industrial policy to move it away from protectionism and towards a focus on maximising exports. The... 

Trade conditions showed slower improvement in August, coming under further pressure since then, with only about a third of respondents reporting positive trade conditions in October – a level... 

The first batch of 275 new container wagons bought from Galison Manufacturing in South Africa has arrived in Lobito, Angola, to reinforce the transport capacity of the Lobito Atlantic Railway... 

Africa, and more specifically South Africa, is a vital destination for investment from European countries, delegates were told at the eleventh The European House Ambrosetti (TEHA) CEO Dialogue on... 

Cooperation between the South African government and the steel manufacturing industry is imperative to address the underlying economic and other issues that created the current lack of local demand... 

South Africa’s Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has appointed Zutari as the transaction adviser at the Island View precinct, the Port of Durban’s fuels and chemicals hub through which about... 

With more than 500 000 people having been displaced and 5 785 having died over the last seven years as conflict wages in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province, Southern Africa Association of Freight... 

While the decisive American election mandate, which has seen Donald Trump being all but confirmed as President elect in the US, has strengthened political certainty within that country, it has...