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South Africa’s April new-vehicle sales delivered an unexpected boost, with a sharp 16.9 per cent year-on-year jump - a welcome surprise in a climate of high interest rates and constrained consumer spending. 

Revving up SA’s car market: Consumers turn to Chinese auto brands

South Africa's Swazi Tshabalala says the African Development Bank requires what she called bold reforms to enable it to become the instrument of change Africa's requires. She joins CNBC Africa for more. 

Swazi Tshabalala guns for AfDB top job 

The Transformation Fund's mission to support black-owned enterprises took center stage at a Business Breakfast attended by Deputy President Paul Mashatile at the Freedom Park Heritage Site and Museum in Pretoria.

South Africa launches Transformation Fund 

From reducing the cost of care to opening new markets for health tech investors, the digital health revolution is a frontier for both public policy and private capital as Africa races toward Universal Health Coverage.

The investment case for digital health in Africa

Kenya’s equity markets are facing pressure, with the Nairobi All-Share Index down 0.4 per cent due to selloffs in major banks and ex-dividend adjustments. 

Ex-dividend pressures, foreign inflows and liquidity challenges in Kenyan markets

This week President Trump marked 100 days in office, a tenure marked by volatility. His second term began with a decline in US GDP, while jobs and prices hold steady. Investors are concerned that the outlook is getting worse. 

Element Investment Managers: 2025 market outlook 

Recently, Botswana's economic outlook was downgraded from stable to negative by Moody's, as a result of the prolonged downturn in the diamond industry. 

Botswana records four consecutive quarters of economic downturn

Some analysts say April is a month of historic volatility and this time around it ended on that same note, with the S&P 500 wiping out a 2 per cent slide for the first time since 2022. 

Q2 outlook & lessons from U.S. "Liberation Day”

CEO of MTN Nigeria, Karl Toriola believes the free flow of FX in the economy, subsidy removal and the tax reform bill are catalytic to the telecom business as it aims to achieve a minimum of 45 per cent growth in service revenue in 2025. 

MTNN targets 45% quarterly revenue growth in FY'25 

MTN Nigeria expects the full effect of the 50 per cent tariff increase to reflect in its second quarter earnings due to the delay in implementation. 

MTN Nigeria: 50% telecom tariff hike to reflect in Q2'25 results

The CEO of MTN Group, Ralph Mupita says the telecommunications company is earmarking about $2 billion in capital expenditure with about 90 per cent of the investment going into building wireless networks across sub-Saharan Africa this year. 

Mupita: MTN plans $2bn capital expenditure for SSA network infrastructure in 2025

The Nigeria Labour Congress is calling for a stronger implementation of the 70,000 naira minimum wage, acceleration of the Compressed Natural Gas Transport system.

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