1+ hour, 22+ min ago  (411+ words) Entrepreneurship education needs a significant upgrade of its scope and scale. Entrepreneurship skills and the motivation to start a business should be brought to all students at universities, not only those registered specifically for entrepreneurship degrees. The goal is to…...

1+ hour, 37+ min ago  (41+ words) WATCH | Reserve Bank holds repo rate at 6.75%Business Day WATCH | Reserve Bank holds repo rate at 6.75% Business Day TV spoke to Vishal Rama, portfolio manager at Prescient Investment Management, and Johann Els, chief economist at PSG Financial Services...

16+ hour, 30+ min ago  (588+ words) Local consumers were already feeling fragile before the first missile struck Iran late last month. Now, with oil prices spiking and the rand hovering around R17/$, economists and retailers are bracing for a new round of inflation " and the country's forecourts…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (200+ words) The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has proposed discontinuing the prime lending rate as the banking sector's primary benchmark and replacing it with direct quotation against its own "SARB policy rate" (SPR), previously the repurchase (repo) rate. Benchmark reform elsewhere…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (363+ words) Bengaluru " Gold rose more than 2% on Wednesday, buoyed by a softer dollar, while a drop in oil prices eased concern about elevated inflation and higher global interest rates, amid reports of a US plan to end the Middle East war....

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (732+ words) How to adopt new methods, data sources and technologies to produce official statistics under severe financial constraints is the conundrum well captured by Stuart Theobold in his most recent column (Shoprite inflation data challenges official statistics, March 18). Conformity to international…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (346+ words) Stuart Theobald's column on the differences between food inflation rates calculated by Shoprite and Stats SA contained revisionist history about the Capitec CEO's 2025 comments on unemployment that needs challenging (Shoprite inflation data challenges official statistics, March 18). Capitec did not publish…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (616+ words) Though the South African Reserve Bank's (SARB) probable decision on Thursday to keep rates unchanged is almost fully baked in, governor Lesetja Kganyago's speech will still be the highlight of a week that will also see the release of February…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (570+ words) Shoprite's latest results contained a number that should be worrying statisticians. For the second half of 2025 the supermarket chain reported internal food inflation of 0.7%. Statistics SA's equivalent measure for food and nonalcoholic beverages was 4.7% for the same period. That is…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (288+ words) Bengaluru " Gold prices edged higher on Tuesday, buoyed by the easing fear of prolonged disruptions to oil shipments, while investors assessed the economic impact of the Middle East conflict ahead of a slew of central bank policy decisions this week....