Business Kenya president Ruto vows tax overhaul to lower inequality Nairobi – Kenya’s newly elected President William Ruto on Thursday vowed to overhaul the country’s income tax regime and... Read more 30 Sep, 2022
Business Ethiopia raises fuel prices by 20% Addis Ababa – Fuel prices in Ethiopia rose by about 20% on Thursday, in the second such increase in... Read more 30 Sep, 2022
Business Barbados wins first loan deal from IMF climate change fund Washington – Barbados on Tuesday became the first country to secure agreement on a financing package under a new... Read more 29 Sep, 2022
Business WATCH | ‘We could still have load shedding for 9 – 12 months,’ says Pravin Gordhan Cape Town – Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan has said that South Africans could still experience load shedding for the next... Read more 29 Sep, 2022
Business Morocco hikes interest rates to slow down inflation Rabat – Morocco’s central bank on Tuesday raised interest rates by 50 basis points to 2.0 percent in an effort... Read more 28 Sep, 2022
Business Experts expect petrol to drop by R1 in October, but Diesel ‘will go up’ Cape Town – Motorists can breathe a little more freely when they enter the petrol stations in October after... Read more 28 Sep, 2022
Business Ireland to unveil budget to tackle cost of living and energy crises Dublin – The Irish government will on Tuesday unveil its budget for the upcoming year and its plans to deal... Read more 27 Sep, 2022
Business Unilever CEO to step down end 2023 London – Alan Jope, chief executive of Unilever, will retire his role at the end of 2023, the British... Read more 26 Sep, 2022
Business Eskom warns of higher stages of load shedding if ‘uncertainty of diesel supply persists’ Cape Town – Eskom has warned that it might have to ramp up load shedding to even higher stages... Read more 26 Sep, 2022
Business Kenya has breached its public debt ceiling – how it got there and what that means Odongo Kodongo, University of the Witwatersrand Kenya’s newly elected president, William Ruto, has earned more legal space to borrow... Read more 26 Sep, 2022