South Africa’s economy faced a turbulent 2024, marked by slow growth, high unemployment, and lingering structural challenges. While the formation of a Government ...
PG was definitely not the type to stand on top of the mountain and shout slogans when such serious political racial tensions had to be quickly and effectively defused. ...
Former Minister Pravin Gordhan, was an anti-apartheid activist, non-racist to the core, fond of detail and loyal. His main weaknesses were stubbornness (like me) ...
OPINION: I am comfortable to say that it looks like the inflation rates have equally peaked in South Africa, and that it is possible that the annual inflation rate ...
Professor Dumisa looks at the economies of seven countries, which include four African countries and three major countries who are also members of BRICS.
Picture: Itumeleng English / African News Agency (ANA) - The BRICS summit week can be realistically said to have been very successful under the circumstances, says ...
OPINION: There is definitely a great push for de-dollarisation, given that most countries are by now irritated by the extent to which the US dollar has been highly ...
OPINION: We must not be misled into believing that many businesses will leave South Africa because of recent US sabre-rattling. But, the serious business uncertainties ...
OPINION: We must not be misled into believing that many businesses will leave because of recent US’s sabre-rattling. But, the serious business uncertainties linked ...
Inflation challenge: Don’t worsen it through ill-informed short-term interventions
OPINION: EFF leader Julius Malema and party wanted to bring everything to a standstill in South Africa, especially the economy, as a means of attaining a particular ...
President Cyril Ramaphosa publicly set his Presidency an investment target of R1. 2 trillion for the first five years of his term. He has now declared that the R1. ...
President Cyril Ramaphosa publicly set his Presidency an investment target of R1. 2 trillion for the first five years of his term. He has now declared that that ...
OPINIO: South African SOEs cannot be saved unless and until the government gets the political will to strongly act against anyone who deliberately sabotages the ...
OPINION: Let us hope Eskom will now be able to sort out its essential infrastructural challenges instead of just wasting time on ‘Band-Aid approaches’, writes Professor ...
Picture: Doctor Ngcobo/African News Agency (ANA) Archives - The damage being caused by Eskom’s load shedding has even had some direct negative effects on other sectors ...
OPINION: For South Africa to take our manufacturing sector back to its glory days, the manufacturing industry and the government must start making very difficult ...
OPINION: The state became less willing to use the police to maintain law and order, and; when the South African Railways Police were removed, the trains became less ...
Graphic: Timothy Alexander / African News Agency (ANA)By Professor Bonke DumisaI always resist and even discourage negative comparisons between what worked well ...
OPINION: South Africans with their culture of entitlement expect the government to immediately fix our unemployment, poverty and inequality challenges without stating ...
OPINION: South Africans with their culture of entitlement expect the government to immediately fix our unemployment, poverty, and inequality challenges without stating ...
Hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost, and the poor and the unemployed will be hardest hit. So the question is: was it worth it sabotaging the South African ...
Hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost, and the poor and the unemployed will be hardest hit. So the question is: was it worth it sabotaging the South African ...
OPINION: It is not the role of government to create jobs; the role of government is to create a conducive economic environment for businesses to thrive in, writes ...