HARARE (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe’s economy is expected to contract this year due to a drought and severe power cuts, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said on Thursday, without providing a figure.



The country had initially forecast the economy to grow 3.1% in 2019.



Ncube also said Zimbabwe would defer publication of year-on-year inflation until February 2020 following the adoption of a new currency in June.



Prices of basic goods and services have more than doubled since June, piling pressure on citizens struggling with shortages. That has stirred memories of economic chaos a decade ago, when rampant money-printing fuelled hyperinflation and forced the country to abandon its currency in 2009.



Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Writing by Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo; Editing by Janet Lawrence

Zimbabwe to defer release of inflation figures,  economy to contract in 2019 – finance minister

Mark Barnes who was appointed from the private sector to turnaround South Africa&#8217;s Post Office on January 15, 2016 has resigned, due to a difference of opinion with the board on the parastatal&#8217;s future direction. Lindiwe Kwele, who is currently the group&#8217;s COO, has been appointed as the acting CEO until the board finds a permanent replacement.



Below is an interview CNBC Africa did with him, when his appointment was first announced. 



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Laconic Barnes is also Chairman of Exclusive Books and a significant shareholder in Purple Group.



During May and July he sold a total of 6,3 million shares totalling almost R1.8 million in Purple Group, the company he co-founded.

Mark Barnes resigns as CEO of SA’s Post Office

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa’s Woolworths Holdings reported on Thursday that it expects earnings to fall as much as 5% this year due to further impairments on its David Jones department store business.



Woolworths, which also has operations in Australia and New Zealand, said that headline earnings per share (HEPS) for the year is expected between 345.9 to 364.1 cents, compared to 364.1 cents in the same period last year.



HEPS is the main profit gauge in South Africa and strips out certain one-off items.



“The impairment reflects the economic headwinds and the accelerating structural changes affecting the Australian retail sector as well as the performance of the business, which has fallen short of expectations,” the company said.



Reporting by Onke Ngcuka, editing by Deepa Babington

Why South Africa’s Woolworths expects earnings to fall as much as 5% in 2019

JOHANNESBURG &#8211; Among the metal shacks and narrow side streets of South Africa’s townships, one of the country’s biggest lenders sees a sizeable market it wants to be first to crack: multi-million-rand businesses operating largely in cash. 



FirstRand, South Africa’s biggest lender by market share, sees enterprises such as Ram Thapa’s, a beauty shop and fast-food outlet with combined annual turnover of 19 million rand ($1.36 million) but no business account, as ripe targets for a host of financial products.



Businesses in townships &#8211; areas designated for non-whites under apartheid &#8211; have largely been ignored by big banks in Johannesburg’s financial district Sandton, even though some have tens of millions of revenue a year, said Mike Vacy-Lyle, CEO of business banking at FirstRand’s retail unit First National Bank (FNB).



“Four kilometres to the right of Sandton is a township called Alex [Alexandra],” he said. “Inside Alex there are massive businesses and business networks that no bank has bothered to open their eyes to.”



FNB has set its sights on the townships as it prepares to defend its No. 1 position from rival Capitec and new digital lenders such as TymeBank and Bank Zero which have shaken up the retail market with cheaper products and are poised to enter business banking.



There are estimated to be up to 5.78 million micro-, small and medium-sized enterprises in South Africa according to a 2018 report by the World Bank, and while there is no recent data on the proportion of those firms which have a bank account, a 2010 survey cited in the report estimated it was less than half.



FNB plans to attract unbanked businesses onto its books by first getting them to use fintech firm Selpal. The bank acquired an undisclosed stake in the company late last year.



Selpal connects local stores with suppliers via software and tablets. Once a customer is using Selpal, FNB will use the data it collects to offer them an account with, for example, an overdraft attached. The bank is launching a business account in October with zero monthly fees though customers will pay as they use a range of transactions.



In order to succeed, FNB will have to overcome a strong attachment to cash-only transactions, general mistrust of banks, paperwork problems and low margins.



Reflecting that challenge, Vacy-Lyle said it could take up to a decade to sign up at least 600,000 companies. By comparison, it took Capitec five years to add more than 600,000 retail clients.



Rivals including Capitec, as well as Absa, Standard Bank and Nedbank &#8211; which together with FirstRand make up South Africa’s big four &#8211; told Reuters they don’t have plans to target unbanked township businesses specifically.



In a statement, Gerrie Fourie, chief executive of Capitec, said its plan was to focus on the SME market as a whole. Michael Jordaan, co-founder of Bank Zero, said it would target all businesses.



Luisa Mazinter, chief marketing officer of TymeBank, said its business offering would initially be targeted at sole proprietors and micro businesses, allowing current account-holders to open a separate account for their business with no extra documents required.



In the longer-term, TymeBank will adapt the offering to appeal to both formal and informal enterprises and aim to introduce its own point-of-sale devices, Mazinter said.



Bongiwe Gangeni, deputy CEO of Absa’s retail and business bank, said a number of attempts over the past decade to target unbanked companies, including with loans and point of sale devices, had not generated enough revenue to justify the costs.



She said the issue wasn’t always about access. “I think some of them choose not to be banked.”



FNB declined to quantify the income it is hoping to generate from township companies.



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On the face of it, lenders in South Africa are relatively well represented among the general population with more than 80% of adults having access to a current account, according to a 2018 report by FinMark Trust, a Johannesburg-based financial inclusion organisation.



But in many communities, cash is still king. A bank account is often a condition of employment or receipt of social payments, and many people withdraw money as soon as they receive it and just use notes and coins.



Only 24% of South Africans make more than three monthly transactions of any kind through their account, according to a report by Boston Consulting Group in 2017.



Some people are wary of formalising their financial arrangements in case it puts them on the taxman’s radar. Many are also mistrustful of digital methods of payment, as well as the financial sector in general after mis-selling and corruption scandals, and prefer to pool savings in community-based schemes.



In his shop, choc-a-bloc with hair and beauty products and mannequin heads wearing wigs, Thapa said he’d prefer to have a business bank account. Right now, he doesn’t have access to credit and is relying on a point of sale device linked to his brother’s business so he can serve card paying customers.



Cash also attracts trouble, he told Reuters.



“You know, this area is very dangerous,” he said, counting the number of times he had been robbed &#8211; three &#8211; on his fingers.



Bureaucracy is a big hurdle for small enterprises looking to tap traditional finance.



A handful of unbanked businesses Reuters found across two townships were, in almost every case, owned by immigrants or asylum seekers and cited a lack of the right documents &#8211; a factor outside of banks’ control &#8211; as the main reason their business didn’t have an account.



“When you want to do things, they want a business account,” said Vusi Coka, a South African running a tavern in Alexandra. He is struggling to get a mortgage because he can’t show banks how his business is performing.



He can’t open an account for the tavern because it belonged to his late father, and the title hasn’t been transferred into his name.



High fees are another barrier. Digital players have been able to make inroads in the retail market with cheaper products because, unlike traditional banks, they are not lumbered with expensive branch networks that push up costs.



FNB is hoping its zero-fee offering will attract price-conscious entrepreneurs in townships, giving it access to data for cross-selling and growing the market for financial products.



With Selpal serving as a “trojan horse”, Vacy-Lyle said the lender is looking to bank 2,500 township wholesalers by 2022, and after that will look to bring in grocery stores, known as spazas, and taverns, as well as firms like hairdressers and auto repair shops.



While making it easier for such businesses to access financial services, especially credit, was a positive, Brendan Pearce, chief executive of FinMark Trust, said there was a question mark over whether they could make informed decisions.



“There’s a financial literacy issue,” he said, adding fintech firms or others with a more specific focus could usually offer better products at better prices.



“I’m not convinced commercial banks have the solution to financial inclusion.”



($1 = 13.9359 rand)



Additional reporting by Onke Ngcuka, Naledi Mashishi and Mundia Sibongo; Editing by Rachel Armstrong and Carmel Crimmins

How do ‘unseen’ businesses in South Africa’s townships catch a big bank’s eye ?

Eskom has seconded Saica&#8217;s CEO Freeman Nomvalo to be its chief restructuring officer, a position that was created by Treasury to ensure that its funding of parastatals doesn&#8217;t fall down a bottomless pit. 



This comes as the power utility announced a loss of almost R21 billion and yesterday appointed its chairman <a href="https://www.cnbcafrica.com/zdnl-mc/2019/07/29/jabu-mabuza-both-eskom-chair-and-interim-ceo/">Jabu Mabuza as interim CEO of Eskom</a>.



See Public Enterprises statement below: – With respect to the announcement this afternoon at the Eskom annual results presentation by Mr Pravin Gordhan, the Minister of Public Enterprises on the appointment of a Chief Restructuring Officer (CRO) for Eskom, the Ministry of Public Enterprises wishes to provide clarity on the following:



·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The board
of South African Institute for Chartered Accountants (SAICA) agreed to a
request from the Ministers of Finance and Public Enterprises to assist
government with the establishment of an office for a CRO at Eskom;



·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mr Freeman
Nomvalo, the SAICA CEO, has been designated by the SAICA board to lead a team
of specialists for this purpose;



·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He will
remain the CEO of SAICA;



·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He will
lead the efforts to establish the CRO Office and build its capability that must
include the expertise: corporate finance, debt management and balance sheet
optimization.



·&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He will
report to Ministers Finance and Public Enterprises and the Eskom board.



The immediate tasks for the CRO office will be to
interrogate Eskom debt and various proposals to resolve Eskom’s burden and to
engage investors with the Eskom Executive.



SAICA’s assistance will aim to reorganize the operational
and funding structures of Eskom and to contribute to Eskom’s future
sustainability in the interest of our country and economy.

Eskom appoints Saica’s Freeman Nomvalo as chief restructuring officer

By Kopano Gumbi



Nicky Newton-King has been the CEO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
for eight years. She has a long and storied career, having joined the JSE 23
years ago.



Newton-King will be replaced by Dr Leila Fourie from the 1 October. According to the SENS announcement released, Fourie is a seasoned business executive having previously served as an executive director of the JSE.



The JSE has gone through turbulent times in the last five years as it struggled to find attractive listings and high trading volumes suffered &#8212; something analysts attribute to a weakened South African economy and not necessarily to the leadership of the JSE.



“She leaves at a difficult time and trading environment,” says Rowan
Williams, a director at Nitrogen Fund Managers. He credits Newton-King with
corporatising the bourse and making it a more efficiently run business.&nbsp; 



During her tenure, the JSE also faced competition from new entrants in the market. Several new exchanges opened, including ZarX, A2X and 4AX. Still, the JSE remains the largest exchange in South Africa with a market capitalisation of R11 billion, and the largest in Africa.



“She is a highly rated and well respected professional,” says David Shapiro of Sasfin Wealth. “There was a time women weren’t allowed on the trading floor of the JSE, for her to have come to lead is a major move.”

JSE CEO Nicky Newton-King steps down

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The verdict is in on the case of former CEO Peter Moyo versus financial services group Old Mutual. The judge ruled the dismissal of Moyo unlawful. Moyo is confident that he will be back in office tomorrow morning .CNBC Africa&#8217;s Fifi Peters filed this report.

Peter Moyo: Am back at work tomorrow, as court reinstates him as Old Mutual’s CEO

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South Africa’s unemployment rate is up to 29 per cent for the quarter ended-June. Statistics South Africa is reporting the highest rate of people without jobs since the first quarter of 2008, more than years ago. Joining CNBC Africa for more is Risenga Maluleke, Statistician-General, Stats SA.

Stats SA: 6.7mn South Africans jobless – here’s how it’s calculated

PRETORIA (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa’s second quarter unemployment rate rose to 29.0%, its highest level in more than a decade, from 27.6% in the first quarter, official data showed on Tuesday.



There were 6.7 million people without jobs in the three months to the end of June, compared with 6.2 million people in the prior quarter, Statistics South Africa said its quarterly labour force survey.



“This is highest it has gone since the first quarter of 2008 since we began the quarterly labour force survey,” said Statistician General Risenga Maluleke.



Employment losses were mainly driven by private households, transport, mining and finance, Stats SA said.



The expanded definition of unemployment, which includes people who have stopped looking for work, rose to 38.5% in the second quarter from 38.0% in the previous quarter.



Reporting by Mfuneko Toyana; Writing by Tanisha Heiberg; Editing by Andrew Heavens

South Africa’s unemployment rate rises to 29% in Q2

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The latest unemployment rate has increased by 1.4 percentage points to 29 per cent in the second quarter of 2019. This rate is the worst unemployment figure since 2003. We also take a quick look at Harambee’s Breaking Barriers report which looks at the alarming gender disparities within the South African job market. Joining CNBC Africa for more on these figures is Lebo Nke, Executive at Harambee for Partnerships &#038; Advocacy.

SA unemployment rate hits worst level since 2008 with women faring worse than men

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Although South African’s are experiencing lower inflation, car sales remain stagnant. Buying activity in the car sector is more amongst the used cars market as the used-to-new vehicle ratio increased to 2.16 in the second quarter of 2019. Joining CNBC Africa to unpack these numbers is Kriben Reddy, Head of Auto Information Solutions.

SA’s new car sales hit a major speed bump in tough environment

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Next week will see the beginning of 4th annual SADC Industrialization Week taking place in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. The week-long event will operate under the theme, &#8216;A conducive business environment for inclusive and sustainable industrial development&#8217;. One of the main focuses of the conference will be to go through the SADC Industrialization Strategy and Roadmap and to identify projects that can be jointly implemented by the public and private sectors within the SADC member states. Tanzanian Minister of Industry and Trade, Innocent Bashungwa joins CNBC Africa for more.

SADC Industrialization Week to help ease regional trade

Ahead of the release of Eskom&#8217;s annual results tomorrow Chairman Jabu Mabuza has also been appointed interim CEO. This was decided at the parastatal&#8217;s annual general meeting. <a href="https://www.cnbcafrica.com/zdnl-mc/2019/05/24/eskom-ceo-quits/">He replaces Phakamani Hadebe who leaves on 31st July</a>. 



Mabuza was recently appointed as a non-executive director at Multichoice. He also serves as chairman of Sun International, Anheuser-Busch InBev / SABMiller Africa and &nbsp;the Casino Association of South Africa.



Eskom is currently on the hunt for a new CEO, the deadline of which closes Friday. See job specifications below&#8230; 



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The troubled power utility has the potential to throw the country into <a href="https://www.cnbcafrica.com/videos/2019/07/25/moodys-heres-how-the-eskom-govt-bailout-will-impact-sas-economy/">junk status with Moody&#8217;s</a> the last remaining rating agency, which has it above investment grade. Moody&#8217;s now views Eskom as an extension of government.

Jabu Mabuza both Eskom chair, and interim CEO

JOHANNESBURG/VRYHEID, South Africa (Reuters) &#8211; Cattle have long been considered a measure of wealth across Africa &#8211; but it is not just farmers cashing in.



A pioneering app in South Africa lets investors, eager to benefit from rising global beef demand, buy shares in a cow from their mobile phone for as little as 576 rand ($41).



Self-styled “crowd-farming” company Livestock Wealth connects investors with small-scale farmers via its “MyFarmbook” app, where they can buy their own cow and receive interest rates of between 5% and 14% depending on where they put their money.



Launched in 2015 with 26 cows, the project now includes more than 2,000 cows and has taken in 50 million rand, with 10 percent of investors coming from outside South Africa.



Groups of investors can buy a whole cow, while individuals can purchase shares in a pregnant cow or young calf.



A pregnant cow costs 18,730 rand and takes 12 months before the newborn calf can be sold for a return, while investing in a calf costs 11,529 rand and takes six months for it to grow enough to be sold.



“We can link small scale farmers to big markets by introducing private capital into the growing phase,” said 38 year-old Livestock Wealth founder and CEO Ntuthuko Shezi, who was inspired by his grandparents’ farming success.



“The household bank account was a crop,” added Shezi of his family experience, standing among a herd of cattle at a partner farm in Vryheid, a ranching town in northern KwaZulu-Natal province.



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">“EASIER” THAN REAL FARMING</h3>



Livestock contributes around 51% to the agricultural economy in South Africa, with global sheep and beef prices rising after droughts in major producing areas.



“Many people live in urban areas and they have interests in participating in farming but they cannot physically be there and this offers them a platform to do that,” said Wandile Sihlobo, economist with South African agribusiness association Agbiz.



Small business consultant Nontokozo Sabela, 34, was once interested in farming &#8211; but found the app a better alternative.



She bought her first cow in 2016 and earned around 6,000 rand from it. “This way it’s easier for me, it’s cheaper, it’s convenient,” said Sabela.



As with any investment, however, risks exist. Both the impact of weather on feed costs and fluctuations in global demand for beef can affect the cow investments.



Shezi now hopes to expand his business into the produce market after launching a vegetable growing system this month that aims to give a 220 rand return per month over five years.



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Reporting by Tanisha Heiberg; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne

Is African cattle investment the new cash cow? Here’s how investors are cashing in…

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) &#8211; Ratings agency Fitch on Friday affirmed South Africa’s credit rating at ‘BB+’, in sub-investment grade, but downgraded the outlook from stable to negative, citing a widening budget deficit and spending on supporting struggling state firms.



Fitch said it believed significant progress in restructuring the state power firm Eskom would be challenging, and that downward revisions to economic growth forecasts in 2019 raised new questions about South Africa’s growth potential.



Reporting by Alexander Winning; Editing by Kevin Liffey

Fitch affirms South Africa credit rating but downgrades outlook from stable to negative

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) &#8211; A Johannesburg High Court on Friday approved a 5 billion rand ($353 million) class action settlement between gold mining companies and law firms representing thousands of miners who contracted the fatal lung diseases silicosis and tuberculosis.



The settlement follows a long legal battle by miners to win compensation for illnesses they say they contracted over decades because of negligence in health and safety.



“All the parties made an effort to ensure that the settlement agreement is reasonable, adequate and fair,” the High Court said in its judgement.



The gold producers agreed in May last year to the settlement but it needed to be approved by the Johannesburg High Court before being implemented.



The class action suit was launched in 2012 on behalf of miners suffering from silicosis, an incurable disease caused by inhaling silica dust from gold-bearing rocks.



It causes shortness of breath, a persistent cough and chest pains, and also makes people highly susceptible to tuberculosis.



The companies involved are Harmony Gold, Gold Fields, African Rainbow Minerals ARIJ.J, Sibanye-Stillwater SGLJ.J, AngloGold Ashanti and Anglo American South Africa. The latter no longer has gold assets but historically was a bullion producer.



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Reporting by Tanisha Heiberg. Editing by Jane Merriman

What you need to know about the $353 million silicosis settlement between gold mining companies and law firms representing thousands of miners

HARARE (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe’s Tourism Minister Prisca Mupfumira has been detained for questioning by a newly formed Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), it said on Thursday.



Mupfumira is the first senior government official to be detained by the commission which was appointed by President Emmerson Mnangagwe on July 15 after he promised tough action against graft.



Transparency International says corruption costs Zimbabwe’s economy at least $1 billion annually.



“We can confirm that the minister of tourism is currently in our custody for questioning and possible due processes,” the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) said in a brief statement. It did not give any details.



Mupfumira, a senior member of the ruling ZANU-PF party, was previously labour minister who oversaw the $1 billion state pension fund. ZACC has said an audit report into the fund implicated several high profile officials for abuse of funds.



Mupfumira did not respond to calls for a comment.



The anti-corruption commission was given the power to arrest suspects, but critics question whether it will be effective.



The opposition cast doubt on Mnangagwa’s decision to appoint High Court Judge Loice Matanda-Moyo as the commission’s chair, alleging a potential conflict of interest because she is married to Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo, the retired army general who announced the November 2017 coup against former leader Robert Mugabe.



Matanda-Moyo has promised to tackle corruption without fear of favour.



Reporting by Nelson Banya; Editing by MacDonald Dzirutwe and Raissa Kasolowsky

Southern Africa

Zimbabwe to defer release of inflation figures, economy to contract in 2019 – finance minister

Mark Barnes resigns as CEO of SA’s Post Office

Why South Africa’s Woolworths expects earnings to fall as much as 5% in 2019

How do ‘unseen’ businesses in South Africa’s townships catch a big bank’s eye ?

Eskom appoints Saica’s Freeman Nomvalo as chief restructuring officer

JSE CEO Nicky Newton-King steps down

Peter Moyo: Am back at work tomorrow, as court reinstates him as Old Mutual’s CEO

Stats SA: 6.7mn South Africans jobless – here’s how it’s calculated

South Africa’s unemployment rate rises to 29% in Q2

SA unemployment rate hits worst level since 2008 with women faring worse than men

SA’s new car sales hit a major speed bump in tough environment

SADC Industrialization Week to help ease regional trade

Jabu Mabuza both Eskom chair, and interim CEO

Is African cattle investment the new cash cow? Here’s how investors are cashing in…

Fitch affirms South Africa credit rating but downgrades outlook from stable to negative

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Zimbabwe’s tourism minister has been detained, here’s why

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Zimbabwe to defer release of inflation figures, economy to contract in 2019 – finance minister

Mark Barnes resigns as CEO of SA’s Post Office

Why South Africa’s Woolworths expects earnings to fall as much as 5% in 2019

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Eskom appoints Saica’s Freeman Nomvalo as chief restructuring officer

JSE CEO Nicky Newton-King steps down

Peter Moyo: Am back at work tomorrow, as court reinstates him as Old Mutual’s CEO

Stats SA: 6.7mn South Africans jobless – here’s how it’s calculated

South Africa’s unemployment rate rises to 29% in Q2

SA unemployment rate hits worst level since 2008 with women faring worse than men

SA’s new car sales hit a major speed bump in tough environment

SADC Industrialization Week to help ease regional trade

Jabu Mabuza both Eskom chair, and interim CEO

Is African cattle investment the new cash cow? Here’s how investors are cashing in…

Fitch affirms South Africa credit rating but downgrades outlook from stable to negative

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