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Scholars have started to investigate what it really means to be middle class in Africa.
Years of political instability and economic mismanagement under the rule of ZANU-PF have left Zimbabwe’s financial system in chaos. The country is living on borrowed time and borrowed money.
The problem with Africa’s model of industrial growth is that it privileges the formal at the expense of the informal and big corporations at the expense of small businesses.
South Africa’s finance minister Malusi Gigaba failed to impress when presenting the eagerly awaited 2017 medium term budget.
South Africa’s finance minister’s medium term budget speech offered hope of potential economic game changes. But will he be bold enough to make them?
South Africa’s finance minister was honest about the problems facing the country. But he made no real suggestions that the government will start doing things differently.
South Africa’s 2017 medium term budget reveals a growing gap between revenue and expenditure which places the country in a highly vulnerable financial state.
Kenya’s government responded with subsidies to tend to the 2017 maize crisis to ensure that it remained affordable. However, the country needs long term solutions to this perennial challenge.
South Africa waits with bated breath for the 2017 medium term budget policy statement from new Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba, as it might reveal key signals of where economic policy is headed.
Business Leadership South Africa has in the recent past assumed a stinging position against public sector corruption. Bonang Mohale explains the stance taken by the lobby group.
South Africa needs to review its approach to rolling out Bus Rapid Transit systems as the current model is proving to be too expensive and unsustainable.
South Africa’s Competition Commission may be wasting resources in undertaking market inquiries as they are expensive and yield little results.
A new accounting system that goes beyond the capitalist understanding of value is bubbling under and could topple capitalism itself.
Britain’s Labour under Corbyn is smelling power, and the making of a new social revolution. In contrast, in South Africa’s governing ANC is in disarray, with no moral compass or credible leadership.
South Africa’s five-year-old National Development Plan suffers from gross misinterpretation by different parties.
South Africa should review its rural development strategy and land reform policy to win the fight against rising poverty.
KPMG South Africa sets a potential example of how shareholders can attack the soft underbelly of private sector state capture enablers.
The rapid penetration of internet technologies in Africa provides hope for e-commerce’s continued growth. Potential online stores need to understand what draws or pushes customers away.
The promise of BRICS was that it would usher in a new approach to development. But after meeting annually for the last nine years there’s no sign that the old order has been challenged.
KPMG South Africa executives have set a new benchmark for the country assuming responsibility for wrongdoing in their organisation.
Privatisation talk in South Africa shows how state owned enterprises are being used as tools for enrichment by the connected and less as key elements of development.
Victims of ATM fraud in Nigeria are often shocked to find out that their defrauders are close family friends or relatives.
Its been 13 years since Mauritius introduced codes of corporate governance for listed companies with mixed results. Its experience is useful for other developing countries looking to do the same.
There is no good case for bailing out South African Airways, it’s simply a matter of avoiding a potentially catastrophic debt default.