SA’s foreign policy and trade relations with US may evolve under his administration.
The monumental challenge is capacity building, resource mobilisation, arm’s-length independent oversight, common red lines, a minimum of functional unity, and implementation and delivery.
Whether it is the ANC or the DA pushing the infrastructure initiative in the GNU is immaterial.
South Africa is the second largest destination for British FDI in Africa.
Millions of people still lack access to life-saving health services, highlighting the link between health and sustainable development.
The true history of South African rugby reflects a mesmerising montage of the prodigious and sustained Black, Coloured and Cape Malay contribution to the development of non-racial rugby as a sober, dogged and dignified alternative to the whites-only dispensation.
A lot is pinned on faster reform implementation supported by the GNU.
Race and colour so ingrained in SA psyche that they never fail to raise their heads.
As beguiling as the attention might seem, it is steeped in the realpolitik of self-interest.
DISEASE outbreak and pandemic unpreparedness is the bane of creaking global health systems irrespective of their economic status.
New minister exudes a freshness but also a naivety, probably due to inexperience.
Whether the MKP would have fared even better without the baggage and influence of a discredited Zuma and with a new generation at the helm, only the electoral gods would know.
Voters will be confronted with stark choices of ‘continuity’, ‘confidence’ or ‘change’.
South Africans should be stone cold sober when deliberating the pros and cons.
The Madiba magic is receding, especially among a youth cohort in a hurry.
Gaps in implementation of laws on women’s rights show how much work still lies ahead.
Bilateral relations have seen a flurry of positive diplomatic activity this year.
Politicians across the globe are a breed unto themselves.
Eskom’s April 1 price hike no April Fool’s joke for cash-strapped South Africans.
Despite global efforts to combat the spread of the resilient mycobacterium that causes the disease, and affects over 10. 6 million people annually, including 5. 8 million men, 3. 5 million women and 1. 3 million children.
The fact that we indulge in this perennial soul-searching playbook suggests that the gender equality ecosystem remains a work in progress, albeit patronisingly slow in any meaningful transformative impact.
A devastating indictment of a state-owned utility on the brink of implosion.
How can Godongwana talk about growth when his fiscal deficit grew by 1%?
South Africans may be bemused to see their country classified as one with a “moderate level of corruption”.
Godongwana beholden to ANC’s competing and latterly self-serving and corrupt factions.
