How Brazil’s classroom-to-cockpit vision shows what South Africa has lost
The lesson from Brazil’s Embraer is simple: industrial innovation begins in the classroom and survives only when competence outranks politics…
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The PAPSS promise: faster, cheaper Africa payments
The Pan-African Payment and Settlement System could transform cross-border payments. But it faces integration, liquidity and infrastructure hurdles…
Banks retreat from climate change commitments – but it’s business more than politics
The Net-Zero Banking Alliance suspended activities in August. Why did such initiatives rise and then fall?…
The sad story of the RAF and the whistleblower
Alleged corruption, maladministration and punitive action – and clients still waiting on their claims 1,800 days later. That’s one whistleblower’s story…
South African men may now take their wife’s surname – why traditional leaders are upset
A court ruling affirming the right of men to adopt their wives’ surnames reflects the tension between statutory and customary law…
Satanic panic: five ‘occult’ crimes that gripped South Africa’s imagination
By providing an explanation for the randomness of misfortune or catastrophe, beliefs in the occult offer a sense of agency in the face of…
West African airlines take off
Airlines in the region are expanding and (shocker) making an occasional profit…
Trump’s tariffs are headed to the US Supreme Court, prolonging the chaos on trade
A US federal appeals court has ruled Trump’s ‘reciprocal’ tariffs are illegal. The decision will throw the US’s trading partners into disarray…
JSE CEOs: caviar pay, sardine results
A new report on 10 years of data for 65 of the JSE’s largest companies shows ‘no clear pattern’ between pay and profit performance…
‘How BEE is hobbling South Africa’s economy’
South Africa is stuck – and part of the problem is how power is centralised in the country…
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