South Africa’s seasonally adjusted GDP grew by 1.2% in the second quarter of 2021, with the transport, storage and communications industry the largest contributor, increasing by 6.9% and contributing 0.5% to overall growth.

It’s been an eventful week on the Expropriation without Compensation front.

The Beer Association of South Africa (BASA) is lobbying the government to change how beer is taxed in South Africa.

The latest official unemployment rate of 34.8% confirms that 7.8 million South Africans are without jobs, while various reports suggest that almost two out of every three individuals in the 18-34 age group are unemployed and unlikely to ever find regular work.

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Poor production methods and limited market access are some of the challenges that prevent small African farmers from developing.

Expanding irrigation infrastructure, commercialising underutilised communal and reformed land (through the provision of tradable land rights), and targeted support to agricultural subsectors and regions with growth potential could all have transformed the rural economy of the Eastern Cape, Limpopo and KwaZulu-Natal.