Disgruntled empowerment partners are planning to have one of South Africa’s largest fishing groups investigated after the company announced it would discontinue a R1.2bn empowerment deal that smoothed the way for it to secure fishing rights.
Stats SA announced on Tuesday that total employment in South Africa decreased by 21,000 or 0.2% between the fourth quarter of 2022 and the first quarter of 2023.
The richest man in Africa and chair of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has urged leaders of government and business to leverage the African Continental Free Trade Agreement to industrialise as a seamless and united economic region.