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    • Ramaphosa’s Four-Point Plan To Fix SA’s Economy Panned

      16 Oct 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      Turning South Africa’s economy around is going to take a Herculean effort, and it doesn’t look like Ramaphosa’s four-point plan is going to cut it.

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    • “Economic And Political Collapse By 2030” – Dire Prediction For SA’s Future

      10 Sep 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      According to a Johannesburg-based political and economic risk consultancy, we’re a decade away from being a “failed state”.

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    • SA Treasury’s Staggering Economic Warning

      19 Aug 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      Yesterday, the National Treasury released guidelines to government departments and public institutions, stressing that unless changes are made, a crisis looms large.

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    • April’s SA Economy Bloodbath In Four Graphs

      01 Jun 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      South Africans spent the month of April under alert level 5 of the lockdown, faced with regulations that rank amongst the strictest in the world.

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    • Sorry, But We’re Officially In A Recession Again

      03 Mar 2020 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      Statistics South Africa released the latest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) numbers today, and they’re not at all pretty.

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    • South Africa’s Economy – Four Reasons To Feel Slightly Optimistic

      04 Sep 2019 by Carrie / No Comments

      Yesterday, news broke that we had avoided a recession, thanks in large part to a lack of load shedding. Financial gurus reckon that’s something to smile about.

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    • SA’s Latest GDP Numbers Are In And They’re Not Pretty

      04 Jun 2019 by Carrie / No Comments

      South Africa’s economy has undergone the worst drop since way back in 2009, and the problem spans multiple sectors.

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    • Here’s Some Potentially Good News About South Africa’s Economy

      22 May 2019 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      It’s not often that somebody has anything positive to say about the state of our economy, although economist Mike Schüssler is talking long term.

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    • South Africa Could Run Out Of Money By 2042

      28 Feb 2019 by Carrie / No Comments

      Members of parliament have been warned that if the fiscus continues on its current trajectory, SA will run out of money by 2042.

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    • How Much Eskom’s Stage Two Load Shedding Costs South Africa Daily

      11 Feb 2019 by Carrie / No Comments

      Load shedding is alive and well again, and we are on stage four for the rest of the day. Even stage two has dire consequences for the economy.

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    • Here’s What The Average South African Takes Home Each Month

      27 Sep 2018 by Carrie / 1 Comment

      The latest Take-home Pay Index has confirmed improvements on both an annual and a monthly basis to the average salary in South Africa.

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    • Cyril Ramaphosa Just Revealed His Six-Point Plan To Rescue SA

      21 Sep 2018 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      In a press conference delivered from the Union Buildings, Ramaphosa laid out how he intended to haul South Africa out of an economic recession.

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    • The Rand Tanking Will Affect You In These Four Ways

      06 Sep 2018 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment

      South Africa is officially in a recession, and that has seen the rand take a battering over the past few days. If you think that won’t affect you, you’re wrong.

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    • It’s Official – We’re In A Recession

      04 Sep 2018 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      According to the latest figures released this morning by Stats SA, the country is in a recession. The rand has also taken a battering off the back of the news.

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    • Six Reasons Why The Rand Has Bombed

      13 Aug 2018 by Carrie / No Comments

      It’s easy to blame South African politics for the decline in the rand over the weekend. Unfortunately, the real reasons are far more complicated.

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    • Here’s Mmusi Maimane’s Six-Point Plan To Fix SA’s Current Economic Mess

      05 Dec 2017 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments

      As South Africa’s economy continues to decline at a rapid rate, Mmusi Maimane has suggested six simple actions that the government can undertake to fix it.

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    • Hello Junk Status – Here’s How The Downgrade Will Affect You

      04 Apr 2017 by Kiernan / No Comments

      Everyone knows a junk status rating isn’t a good thing, but how many people really understand the effect it will have on our daily lives going forward?

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    • If We’re Cut To Junk Status, It’s Actually Not A Bad Thing – This Is Why

      27 May 2016 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      Junk status this and junk status that, right? Well perhaps this seemingly inevitable downgrade will not be the end of the world.

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    • The One Graph That Shows Just How Badly The South African Economy Is Tanking

      23 May 2016 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment

      If we learnt one thing from the ‘Weekend Finance Minister’ fiasco it’s that the market doesn’t react well to uncertainty. Trouble is brewing.

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    • Local Finance Experts Crush Zuma’s ‘The Economy Is Owned By Whites’ Claims

      31 Mar 2016 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments

      You may have heard those claims that black South Africans own just 3% of the country’s economy. These guys think that’s a load of bollocks.

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    • A Downgrade For South Africa Might Be A Good Thing – This Is Why

      01 Mar 2016 by Kiernan / No Comments

      Time to panic Jannie, pack the bags and book the first flight outta here. Or maybe not, because sometimes things must get worse before they can get better.

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    • South Africa Is A Ball-Hair Away From Going Into A Full-Blown Recession

      25 Nov 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments

      South Africa’s economy experienced a contraction in the second term, but luckily, the third term’s GDP increased to save us from a plummeting into a recession.

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    • The Rand Has Never Been Weaker

      09 Nov 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments

      Here’s hoping your weekend went better than it did for the rand, close of trading on Friday seeing some truly awful numbers.

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    • Well Done, South Africa – You’re Miserable

      12 Mar 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments

      It’s almost the weekend and we’re all becoming rosier by the minute….or are we? A new study says we rank amongst the world’s most miserable nations.

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