Implications of Trump’s election on SA and global trade
SA’s foreign policy and trade relations with US may evolve under his administration.
How global summits are reshaping world order
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.
Challenges and opportunities in SA’s infrastructure development plan
Whether it is the ANC or the DA pushing the infrastructure initiative in the GNU is immaterial.
SA woos UK, Ireland for foreign investment
South Africa is the second largest destination for British FDI in Africa.
Act now, next pandemic will not wait for world
Millions of people still lack access to life-saving health services, highlighting the link between health and sustainable development.
SA leaders can learn a lot from Boks’ breathtaking success
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.
SA still faces serious macroeconomic challenges
A lot is pinned on faster reform implementation supported by the GNU.
Clarion call for men to change attitudes towards women
Race and colour so ingrained in SA psyche that they never fail to raise their heads.
Focac 9 focus on Africa set to quench global economic thirst
As beguiling as the attention might seem, it is steeped in the realpolitik of self-interest.
Mpox spread in SA a cause for concern
DISEASE outbreak and pandemic unpreparedness is the bane of creaking global health systems irrespective of their economic status.
Lamola is no Pandor in steering foreign policy
New minister exudes a freshness but also a naivety, probably due to inexperience.
ANC has two weeks to get its next move right
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.
South Africans, the ball is in your court
Voters will be confronted with stark choices of ‘continuity’, ‘confidence’ or ‘change’.
ANC’s rogue NHI version is an untested experiment
South Africans should be stone cold sober when deliberating the pros and cons.
A travesty that ANC is still defined by Mandela
The Madiba magic is receding, especially among a youth cohort in a hurry.
Gender equality is smart economics and right way to go
Gaps in implementation of laws on women’s rights show how much work still lies ahead.
Thaw in SA-US relations a relief for Ramaphosa
Bilateral relations have seen a flurry of positive diplomatic activity this year.
Mapisa-Nqakula’s case symbolises a disconcerting trend
Politicians across the globe are a breed unto themselves.
Africa lags in renewable energy race despite advantages
Eskom’s April 1 price hike no April Fool’s joke for cash-strapped South Africans.
Ending tuberculosis is an exercise in futility
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.
Gender gaps across spectrum unacceptable
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.
Report lays bare shame of all that is dysfunctional at Eskom
A devastating indictment of a state-owned utility on the brink of implosion.
Budget did not serve the real economic hopes of majority
How can Godongwana talk about growth when his fiscal deficit grew by 1%?
ANC narrative avoids tough questions
South Africans may be bemused to see their country classified as one with a “moderate level of corruption”.
Budget must escape ANC cadres’ ideological straitjacket
Godongwana beholden to ANC’s competing and latterly self-serving and corrupt factions.