South Africa will on Friday start offering loans from a 2.5 billion rand ($135 million) Youth Fund aimed at supporting small businesses, part of a push by the government to tackle one of the world’s highest unemployment rates.

South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago said on Thursday there was no reason to delay a push for a lower inflation target to 3% despite persistent pockets of inflationary pressure from administered prices and wages.

The idea that white South Africans face an existential threat emerged in the violent final decade of apartheid rule. It was a key narrative that the National Party government of President P.W. Botha liked to present to the outside world.

South Africa’s government is in talks with at least six companies to secure funding needed to entice Formula 1 Grand Prix racing back to the country, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

By Siyanda Mthethwa JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African pharmacy chain Dis-Chem Pharmacies reported a 9% increase in half-year earnings on Thursday, helped by strong wholesale revenue growth. Wholesale revenue grew by 11.

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The Swiss town of Neuchatel on Tuesday handed over to South Africa three artefacts that had spent more than a century in one of its museums."Neuchatel today handed over to South Africa three objects of symbolic and religious significance that had been housed in the collections of the Ethnographic Museum of Neuchatel for over a century,

The South African rand gained on Wednesday as investors braced for a day headlined by the Federal Reserve's decision and signs of easing U.S.-China trade tensions. At 1414 GMT, the rand traded at 17.11 against the dollar,