Inside Cyril’s gift box for Donald
Cars, gas, rare earths – and a nod to equity equivalence. South Africa’s gift box to Trump may not dazzle, but it’s a transactional…
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How Africa can rethink foreign aid
Africa’s great foreign aid rethink is here, and it’s well past time to design outside help that truly works…
Cupcake survives ambush in Trump’s bunker
Against expectations of an ‘unmitigated disaster’, Ramaphosa achieved a rare success in the Oval Office. It helped that he had champion golfers in his…
What Trump’s trade rivals might use as payback
As Trump focuses his attention on slapping tariffs on imported goods, rivals eye the US’s powerful services sector for retaliation…
Torching the dollar: The thinking behind Trump’s massive tariff gamble
The US’s desire to drive down the value of the mighty dollar is regarded as central to the unpredictable and hugely volatile tariff war…
Standard rides the lending wave
Standard Bank CEO Sim Tshabalala expects strong growth in loans to continue as households and businesses take heart from greater political stability…
Call in the diplomatic SWAT team
South Africa’s high-stakes diplomatic gamble: can a delegation to the US defuse tensions?…
Fear and tariffs at the G20
Donald Trump threw a grenade into South Africa’s first meeting of the G20 finance ministers, with a threat of 25% tariffs for Europe…
Why Trump hearts Elon
AI, tech and info wars shape US dominance as South Africa gets caught in the crossfire of Trump’s ambitions to Make America Great Again…
Hope is not a strategy in a new Trump world
Donald Trump is no joke. The unpredictability of his presidency is terrible for investment and policy planning – and SA is not immune…
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About 160 public sector CEOs took home R580m in pay…
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Lesufi’s legacy: half-built schools and hospitals
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