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Local logistics and shipping company, Santova announced that they have acquired a logistics firm based in the UK. Nice to see small local firms looking to broaden their markets. All the best to them with their new acquisition.

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We take a look at the news released by Clover that they are in talks with a third party looking to acquire them, which would lead to Clover delisting from the JSE

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We take a look at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) All Share index on a sunburst chart, which shows the relative contribution of various sectors and shares to the overall market capital of the JSE All Share Index.

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We take a look at South Africa's labour force participation rate (those who are employed and those actively looking for employment), and compare it across race groups and age groups in South Africa. And compare that to the labour force participation rate of the United States.

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We take a look at Dis-chem's interim financial results. And find that their revenue growth has been pretty strong, as well as their profit growth and dividend increase. But they still trading at a very low dividend yield. 

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We take a look at PSG's interim financial results and find its trading at a substantial discount to the value of its assets. Not a uncommon occurrence for investment holding companies. 

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South Africa's manufactured goods grew by less than half of the population growth. Which means SA has to import more to meet increased demand.

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Famous Brands (FBR) announced  that they taking a post tax write off of R760million on their UK business Gourmet Burger Kitchen. Basically saying its worth about 38% less than what they originally paid for it.

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South Africans are only recycling about 10% of waste generated. The other 90% ends up in landfills. And South Africa roughly generates 1 tonne of waste per person per year.

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Rooibos tea prices are increasing a lot faster than that of Ceylon/black tea or instant/ ground coffee in South Africa. The drought played a significant role it seems.

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We take a look at the IMF growth forecasts for South Africa and the rest of Africa for 2019, and South Africa is lagging FAR behind its African peers.

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We take a look at South Africa's economic performance under the current embattled Finance Minster Nhlanhla Nene. 

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We take a look at South Africa's trade with NAFTA counties, USA, Mexico and Canada for the year 2018 so far. And the USA by far the biggest trading partner for South Africa within the NAFTA group of countries.

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We take a look at the latest trade statistics and find that South Africa's five biggest trading partners for the month of August 2018 is exactly the same for both imports and exports.
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As South Africa's jobs summit gets under way, one wonders if the time for talking is over. And the time for actions and actually doing something has arrived. While the summit kicked off a SA listed insurer announced a restructuring that could lead to 800 jobs being lost. 

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We take a look at whether South Africa's economy is in its economic sweet spot, or whether we are experiencing stagnation or even worse, stagflation. 

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In this article we focus on the economic performance of South Africa under the leadership of President Thabo Mbeki. 

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We take a look at the economic performance of South Africa under President Jacob Zuma. We take a look at economic growth, the exchange rate and unemployment

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Breaking news: South Africa's economy in a recession
The latest GDP numbers published by Statistics South Africa showed South Africa's economy contracted by -0.7%  in the 2nd quarter of 2018.. This follows a revised contraction of -2.6% in the 1st quarter of 2018. This number was revised down from -2.2% to -2.6% 

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