South Africa’s tourism sector aims high
South Africa’s tourism industry has great untapped potential.…
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Mboweni urges Ramaphosa to close SAA
Finance minister Tito Mboweni has urged the government to close loss-making South African Airways as he looks to cut state spending amid a deteriorating economic climate.…
South Africa: FM Nene resigns, Mboweni takes over
South Africa’s Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene resigns after Gupta family meetings. …
South Africa looks for exit from ‘Ramacession’
With South Africa feeling the effects of the recession and elections looming next year, President Ramaphosa faces a race against time to turn things around.…
South Africa: Ramaphosa announces $3.5bn stimulus plan
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa unveiled on Friday a 50bn rand ($3.5bn) stimulus programme to revive the country’s ailing economy.…
Ramaphosa details land reform plans as Trump calls for inquiry into farm murders
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has dismissed allegations that his proposed land reform programme in South Africa will amount to a ‘land grab’, just as US President Donald Trump entered the debate with an inflammatory tweet calling for a report into alleged land expropriation and the ‘large scale killings’ of white farmers in the country.…
South Africa: Cyril rebound falls flat
It was the culmination of Cyril Ramaphosa’s long road to the presidency of South Africa.…
Silicosis deal offers way forward for South African mining
In poverty-stricken townships and forgotten rural villages across Southern Africa, thousands of desperately poor black labourers cough and wheeze their way towards an early grave.…
Defending Mandela’s legacy
As President Jacob Zuma’s chaotic, divisive and discredited administration stumbled into the early months of 2018, the board of the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) were presented with the toughest call of their careers.…
South Africa: Investors look to capitalise on the ‘Cyril factor’
As an investor in around 200 fast food outlets and 45 pharmaceutical stores across South Africa, Marc van Olst views shopping mall footcount as a key indicator of the health of the businesses.…