I agree with Moyo that aid alone won’t fix the continent's economic challenges. It’s time to rethink Africa's development.

South Africa’s economy registered a marginal 0.1% growth in the first quarter of 2025, narrowly avoiding contraction, ...

After reading comments about Zambia’s failed attempt to install its citizen, Samuel Maimbo into the post of African Development Bank President (AfDB), allow me to offer a dissenting view that seems to ...

Africa’s carriers face high operational costs and a low propensity for air travel expenditure, generating minimal profit per passenger.

One thing that is as certain as the changing seasons is that as the year progresses, forecasts for South African economic growth in 2025 – which are mostly around 1.2% – will be downgraded, which in ...

South Africa’s economy is 37% smaller than it would have been had the country tracked its emerging-market peers and sustained ...

The research group expects the Fed to remain on hold this year, as the economy is hamstrung by uncertainty over whipsawing U.S. trade policy, according to the OECD.

South Africa's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by a modest 0.1 percent in the first quarter (Q1) of 2025, according to data released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) on Tuesday.

Despite high hopes for improved GDP in 2025, the picture of the first quarter GDP does not offer much hope for economic ...

Africa possesses over $165 billion in readily available domestic capital to drive continental development and reduce dependence on volatile external funding sources, participants in a session during ...

The USD/ZAR edged higher on Tuesday as South African rand weakened after first-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) data came in marginally better than expected. South Africas economy stagnated in Q1, ...

EFF statement on the First Quarter of 2025 Economic Growth Report by Stats SA. 3 June 2025. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) notes the first quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP ...