There has been a clear attempt in some quarters to trivialise and justify the recent spate of xenophobic attacks against immigrant shop owners on the pretext that they were engaging in business practices that prejudiced the competitiveness of indigenous small-scale business operators.

The expended period of Eskom’s load shedding since December 2014 to date is beginning to have a serious negative economic impact, warns energy expert, Chris Yelland.

The SA Chamber of Commerce and Industry has proposed that South Africa be divided into four time zones to help alleviate the country's power crisis, acting CEO Peggy Drodskie said on Thursday.

Businesses are losing billions of rand not only through load-shedding but because Eskom sometimes fails to stick to power outage schedules.

The minimum wage for workers in the wholesale and retail sector has increased by between 6.1% and 8.1% from the start of the month.

South African retailers are increasingly adopting global trends and this creates a lot of potential opportunities for more agile operators that apply the industry’s global lessons to their local operations, according to Rob Latham, Deloitte consumer business digital leader.

While lower inflation and the expected further drop in the fuel price in February was to be welcomed, consumers should not see this as an opportunity to stack up even more debt, warned Neil Roets CEO of Debt Rescue.

Eskom has a difficult week ahead, with demand for power expected to outstrip supply.

KwaZulu-Natal farmers have lost millions in revenue as production is hit by the drought that continues in the province.