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Infrastructure, political hurdles and low industrial capacity impede intra-African trade, challenging continental integration…
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A US federal appeals court has ruled Trump’s ‘reciprocal’ tariffs are illegal. The decision will throw the US’s trading partners into disarray…
Africa’s trade goes east as Trump slams the western door
The continent’s exports to China are going gangbusters, and India is proving no slouch as a trade partner either…
Goodyear exit lays bare South Africa’s industrial decline
Goodyear’s Kariega shutdown cuts over 700 jobs and exposes South Africa’s industrial fragility. One worker says it feels ‘like starting from zero’…
Trade shocks test auto industry survival plan
US tariffs, EU carbon costs and rising imports threaten South Africa’s auto industry. Can government save jobs?…
Africa’s inflation gap narrows – but structural fault lines remain
African inflation is on a downward trend. But without fixing structural issues, the continent remains vulnerable to global and domestic inflation shocks…
Trump’s tariff tantrum rolls over Africa
Trump’s Africa tariffs – already based on dodgy economics – seem pointless and cruel given the amount of Africa-US trade…
‘No deal’ as Trump slaps 30% tariff on South Africa
Last-ditch efforts to strike a tariff deal with the US have failed. That won’t bring the economy to its knees, but it will hurt…
Boxed in: Lessons for Pretoria and Africa from Trump’s tariff uppercut
What a schoolboy dust-up has to say about the US president and his looming tariffs…
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South Africa’s big crackdown on greenwashing
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