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The rand had rallied on Monday afternoon following speculation Zuma had finally caved under pressure and decided to resign.
News that Cyril Ramaphosa had been elected ANC president pleased the markets at first, with the rand dollar exchange rate improving
Macroeconomic events go right down the line to those struggling to make a living on the streets.
This week we heard reports that the rand had breached the psychological level of R12.50 to the dollar and R19.22 to the pound. What does it all mean?
Inflation is down and the currency has revived against the dollar, but a petrol price hike looms.
Joseph Stiglitz has called on South Africa to take a bold new approach to policy.
Ghana’s central bank will meet two weeks earlier than planned, to decide how to respond to a weaker currency and inflationary pressures.
Increased sales and a weak rand saw the world’s biggest platinum producer return to profit last year, it announced on Wednesday.
South Africa’s rand has touched fresh two-week lows against the dollar and could lose further ground.
President Jacob Zuma on Thursday tried to reassure investors that South Africa remained a safe destination, despite tensions in the mining sector.
Just over a third of South Africa’s top 120 companies are likely to retrench staff in the next six months, it was reported on Friday.
It is "not bad" if the rand stays around current levels rather than heading to R8 to the dollar, says a senior derivatives dealer.
The Bureau for Economic Research says in its third-quarter 2008 prospects report that South Africa’s economy faces a tough road ahead.
Zimbabwe’s currency plunged to a new record low on Thursday, trading at an average one billion to the US dollar on a recently introduced interbank market.
The core recommendation of the report is that the larger industrial countries move towards a system of "flexible exchange rate bands".
