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    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      South African economy
      Ramaphosa government faces calls to tap foreign exchange gains to ease debt burden

      Hedge fund Amia Capital becomes latest body to float South Africa using central bank account as economy falters

      A view of the Pretoria city centre
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Thabo Mbeki
      Thabo Mbeki: Use the UN to tackle the scourge of global tax abuse

      We should not allow disputes about process to derail international co-operation on this crucial issue

      Delegates sit in rows of seats at the UN General Assembly hall
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      South Africa charges two in Cyril Ramaphosa sofa cash theft case

      First arrests over $580,000 stolen from president’s Phala Phala farm in 2020

      South African president Cyril Ramaphosa
    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Moral Money
      South Africa’s Standard Bank faces dilemma over pipeline decision Premium content

      Also in today’s newsletter, a new can of worms is opening up for board directors

      A pipeline stretches into the distance through a rural landscape
    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      South Africa’s Treasury warns state finances face $3bn shortfall

      Finance minister says rising fiscal pressures will strain ‘scarce public resources’

      Enoch Godongwana
    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      News in-depthSport
      South Africa’s victorious rugby team lifts a troubled nation

      World Cup win a welcome distraction from deepening economic woes under ruling ANC

      South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa and team captain Siya Kolisi hold the World Cup trophy
    • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
      Eskom chief says South Africa must keep some ageing power plants open

      Delays to decommissioning coal-fired stations will challenge plans to embrace clean energy

      Calib Cassim, Eskom’s acting chief
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      South African economy
      How South Africa’s state rail network Transnet came close to the brink

      ‘Catastrophic’ problems at freight company mirror those of stricken Eskom power monopoly

      Goods trains at the port of Durban.
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      South African economy
      Departure of CEO adds to crisis at South Africa’s port and rail monopoly

      Transnet predicted to become ‘next Eskom’ as problems pile up at state transport group

      Portia Derby,
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Management consulting
      Bain hires former UK minister Gerry Grimstone for Saudi project

      Appointment comes after government lifted ban on consultancy tenders imposed over South Africa scandal

      Lord Gerry Grimstone was an unpaid minister for investment
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Prime property
      Hot property: five homes for sale in Cape Town

      From a solar-powered villa looking out to the Atlantic Ocean to a house with a 20-person dine-in wine cellar

      A top floor of a house with views of the suburbs below and further out to the ocean
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      David Pilling
      South Africans’ support for Russia is rooted in misplaced nostalgia

      Condemning Moscow does not mean unthinking adherence to the west

      Cyril Ramaphosa stands shoulder to shoulder with Vladimir Putin as they talk
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      David Pilling
      A fire in South Africa symbolises an entire system gone up in flames

      The blaze in Johannesburg tells a story of xenophobia, urban neglect and political dysfunction

      A woman stands in a doorway looking into a makeshift kitchen in a building that has been taken over
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      Deadly Johannesburg fire exposes post-apartheid South Africa’s systemic failures

      Slum dwelling where 77 people died reflects many of the things that have gone wrong in the country and wider region

      Workers lay bricks to barricade the windows of the building in Johannesburg where 77 died in a fire
    • Saturday, 9 September, 2023
      South African politics
      Mangosuthu Buthelezi, polarising prince and powerbroker, dies aged 95

      The Zulu royal founded the Inkatha Freedom Party that fought a civil war with the African National Congress

    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Inquiry rejects US claims that South Africa supplied arms to Russia

      Ambassador alleges weapons were loaded on to Lady R ship docked in Cape Town

      The Lady R docked at the Simon’s Town Naval Base
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      At least 73 die as fire sweeps through Johannesburg apartment block

      Authorities say building in central business district had housed an ‘informal settlement’

      Smoke rises from the burning building in Johannesburg
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Emerging markets
      Brics leaders invite 6 nations including Saudis and Iran to join bloc

      South African president Cyril Ramaphosa says countries will be admitted next year in ‘first phase of expansion process’

      South African president Cyril Ramaphosa speaks at the Brics summit in Johannesburg
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Emerging markets
      South Africa and China find common ground on Brics expansion

      Cyril Ramaphosa and Xi Jinping hold talks ahead of emerging markets summit in Johannesburg

      Xi Jinping, left, and Cyril Ramaphosa during a pre-summit state visit
    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
      Geopolitics
      China urges Brics to become geopolitical rival to G7

      Leaders from bloc of developing economies will gather this week to debate expansion

    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      HTSI
      The breathtaking world of kelp diving

      A quest for shark encounters in Cape Town leads to a wonder world – and conservation lessons – below the surface

    • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
      Global Economy
      Brics creator slams ‘ridiculous’ idea for common currency

      Jim O'Neill questions emerging nations bloc’s achievements as it considers expansion

      Jim O’Neill, former chief economist of Goldman Sachs
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      South African politics
      S Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma pardoned after ‘special remission’

      Successor Cyril Ramaphosa approves release as part of arrangement that frees thousands of other prisoners

      South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma
    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      South Africa calls end to long run of interest rate hikes

      Central bank keeps benchmark at 8.25 per cent after inflation returns to target range

      The South African Reserve Bank headquarters in Pretoria
    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      Putin to skip summit in South Africa after arrest warrant

      Indicted Russian leader’s presence would have been difficult for Ramaphosa’s government

      Russian president Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to South African president Cyril Ramaphosa
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