South Africa’s water shortages are acute in the country’s economic center, where there’s a gaping divide between those who can afford emergency fixes and those who can’t. It’s a big issue in next week’s local elections. 

South Africa has strengthened fiscal discipline and now must lift economic growth, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said.

South African bonds rallied as the government cut weekly issuance and Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana unveiled new rules to ensure fiscal sustainability as debt peaked.

South Africa lifted its borrowing requirement in the current fiscal year by 54.2 billion rand ($3.3 billion), mainly to finance a domestic bond buyback program designed to smooth out redemptions.

South Africa’s Constitutional Court ruled in favor of the African National Congress in a dispute over candidates excluded from next month’s municipal elections, a judgment that may force the electoral commission to reprint ballot papers weeks before voting begins.

Morgan Stanley expects South Africa to reinstate fuel-tax relief measures for three months to cushion consumers from surging oil prices in next week’s budget, along with details of a long-awaited rule to keep government finances on a sustainable path.

On a recent Saturday night, a minibus taxi drew up to a tavern in the gold-mining town of Carletonville west of Johannesburg. Eight men armed with AK-47 rifles alighted from the vehicle before gunning down patrons. Eighteen people died.

South Africa’s central bank appointed Franz Ruch as an adviser to its governors and the seventh member of its monetary policy committee, with immediate effect.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa committed more resources to deal with gender-based violence and femicide, days after police found the body of an 11th woman east of Johannesburg.

South Africa told the Paris Club that it won’t seek full membership of the group of mostly rich-nation creditors, as it focuses on its involvement in a United Nations-backed coalition of borrower countries instead.

Municipal elections on Nov. 4 will put local policing and basic services squarely back into the political conversation.

Liz Ramhlola was jogging with another woman early one morning on a road bordered by vacant plots when a car slowed down beside them. The men inside opened the windows, then began jeering and arguing amongst themselves about how to “take their summer bodies.” The 37-year-old feared that she and her friend would be abducted, or worse. Eventually, the men drove away.

Morgan Stanley has changed its call on South African interest rates and now expects the central bank to raise borrowing costs this week, saying renewed oil-price pressure increases the risk that inflation takes longer to return to its 3% target.

Morgan Stanley has changed its call on South African interest rates and now expects the central bank to raise borrowing costs this week, saying renewed oil-price pressure increases the risk that inflation takes longer to return to its 3% target.

South Africa’s Electoral Court upheld the exclusion of some candidates from a local-government vote scheduled for Nov. 4, putting the country’s biggest political party at risk of losing control of several town councils.

South Africa’s National Treasury will stage a three-year intervention to stabilize the Johannesburg municipality, which has been beset by governance and financial challenges, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said.

South Africa’s biggest political party retains a narrow lead in voter support in the commercial capital of Johannesburg, two months before the country’s local-government elections, an Ipsos survey shows.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will ask a high court to overturn a report that forms the basis of impeachment proceedings against him over his handling of a burglary at his game farm.

South Africa will raise the benchmark price that’s used to calculate duties on sugar imports, a move long-sought by domestic producers like Associated British Foods Plc’s local unit in an industry that’s been battered by cheap foreign competition, according to people familiar with the matter.

MTN Group Ltd., Africa’s largest mobile-phone operator, and Dubai-based tycoon Tarek Al Ashram will develop data centers to power artificial intelligence on the continent.