The City of Cape Town has urged residents to use water sparingly after water levels in dams supplying the Cape metro declined by 0.6% to 54.3% of total capacity. Cape Town ... Read more »

Stark contrasts emerging from the first days of Level 4 lockdown highlight the extreme disparities that form the foundations of South African society, write Carin Runciman, Charles ... Read more »

A number of rating agencies have downgraded emerging market economies during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is not the first time ratings agencies have adopted a procyclical approach ... Read more »

The South African government has announced a massive social relief and economic support package of R500 billion - around 10% of the country's Gross Domestic Product - to help ... Read more »

Several African countries are major cotton producers, but in spite of this, a large part of the continent's population depends on second-hand clothes for their fashion needs. The ... Read more »

South Africa's Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has met with parliament to discuss further measures and proposals to keep the country's economy going despite dire financial conditions ... Read more »

President Hage Geingob annnounced additional measures to contain the spread the extension of the Coronavirus in Namibia, which has reported 16 cases to date. He extended the ... Read more »

While the ruling African National Congress welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement of an additional two weeks to the country's nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, official ... Read more »

In an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19, African governments are implementing social distancing measures, especially in local markets, where many buy their daily fruit and ... Read more »

The government's plans to privatise certain state-owned entities has been in the pipeline for years. Sanctions, particularly those by the Read more »