Business

By Lehlohonolo Lehana. South African Revenue Service (SARS) commissioner Edward Kieswetter will remain as the head of the tax agency beyond April 30

By Lehlohonolo Lehana. Retail real-estate investment trust Vukile’s South African and Spanish retail property portfolios delivered impressive increases in performance

By Lehlohonolo Lehana. Multichoice Group has rejected a bid by France’s Groupe Canal+ to buy out the JSE-listed parent of

By Lehlohonolo Lehana. JSE-listed telecommunications group Vodacom has topped 200 million customers for the first time – doubling from 100 million

By Lehlohonolo Lehana. France’s Canal+ Group, which has in recent years been buying up a significant stake in JSE-listed MultiChoice Group

By Lehlohonolo Lehana. Former Dis-Chem CEO Ivan Saltzman sold shares worth R1.425 billion to the asset manager Coronation, which now owns almost 30% of the company. The

By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The Absa Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), a key gauge of manufacturing activity, slid to 43.6 points in

By Lehlohonolo Lehana. Banking group Absa has opened a nonbanking subsidiary in Beijing, to allow the group to support domestic

By Ntando Thukwana. The International Monetary Fund downgraded its economic-growth forecasts for South Africa, warning that logistical challenges are constraining activity

By Paul Burkhardt. Shipments from South Africa’s biggest coal export facility dropped to the lowest in over three decades in

By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) kept interest rates on hold at 8.25% in

By Lehlohonolo Lehana. The monthly inflation rate eased again in December, dropping 0.4 percentage points to 5.1 percent as food