The fixed-income market in South Africa is by far the largest on the continent, accounting for 96% of the value of all African bonds, and it has exhibited significant growth in recent years, with the value of notes in circulation reaching about R1.4trn ($170.7bn) in 2012, up from R650bn ($79.2bn) in 2004. Around two-thirds of this total is...
A widening trade imbalance caused South Africa’s current account deficit to broaden to 6.4% of GDP in 2012, up from 4.2% in 2011 and 2.8% in 2010, and the widest since the start of the global financial crisis in 2008, when it reached 7.3%. With the services balance traditionally in deficit, deepening trade imbalances have driven the current...
The mining industry in South Africa is the fifth largest in the world, and today it accounts for around 5% of the nation’s GDP. The sector remains one of the country’s most important sources of employment, providing 16.2% – or nearly 1.4m – of the total formal non-agricultural jobs, according to a recent study by Quantec, an economic and...
Kumba is a listed iron ore miner and a 65%-held subsidiary of global diversified miner Anglo American, benefitting from group procurement and mine optimisation strategies. Kumba was formed by a demerger in 2001 from South African integrated...
Banks face a rapidly evolving regulatory framework in the coming years, with 2013 in particular marking a watershed. While South Africa’s score for financial regulation and the soundness of its banks in the World Economic Forum’s annual “Global Competitiveness Report” has improved from sixth in 2009 to second in 2012, the rules are changing fast...
Portfolio consists of 41 externally managed properties, with a 47:53 split between industrial and office exposure by market value. Through this portfolio, Growthpoint effectively provides more than 5.4m sq metres of retail, office and industrial space to South African and Australian businesses.
Despite a weak macroeconomic backdrop and domestic...
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