Finance & Economics

  • Minister Enoch Godongwana’s 2025 MTBPS: Stability Promised, Credibility Tested

    Minister Enoch Godongwana’s 2025 MTBPS: Stability Promised, Credibility Tested

    Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s 2025 Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) promises a tighter, more disciplined fiscal path, projecting debt to stabilise at 77.9% of GDP and introducing a lower inflation target of 3%. These are meaningful signals of intent. But with growth still subdued and service delivery under strain, the hard work of turning credibility…

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  • Your Financial Mindset and How It Shapes Your Future from an executive at Liberty

    Your Financial Mindset and How It Shapes Your Future from an executive at Liberty

    Our relationship with money begins in the mind. In this insightful piece, Lindiwe Monyae, Executive for Emerging Consumer Markets at Liberty, explores how mindset shapes financial reality and why self-awareness, early habits and intentional planning are the foundation of financial freedom in South Africa.

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  • How Olamide Olowe Turned Skin Struggles into a $10M Beauty Empire with Topicals

    How Olamide Olowe Turned Skin Struggles into a $10M Beauty Empire with Topicals

    Olamide Olowe is, by all accounts, a culture architect. At the helm of Topicals and the newly formed CODB, she’s proving that building for Black and brown consumers isn’t a niche strategy, it’s the start of the future. In doing so, she invites us to rethink: when community is at the centre, innovation follows.

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