South Africa's workforce is in crisis, with a staggering 80,000 jobs lost in the first quarter of 2026. What does this mean ...
South Africa demonstrated remarkable economic resilience in the face of global turbulence in 2025, successfully maintaining macroeconomic stability and keeping inflation under control. Even so, the ...
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has called for the government to intervene as one of South Africa's biggest diamond ...
South Africa’s building and construction sector appears set for better days. Elsie Snyman, CEO of construction market ...
The informal economy is responsible for a large share of economic output across the continent. Yet economic policy is almost always designed for the formal economy and overlooks the informal economy.
In the ongoing quest to understand South Africa’s political and economic stagnation, it may be helpful to look at other postcolonial states that have travelled further along the path of independence.
South Africa has 124 million active Sim cards against a population of around 65 million, according to GSMA Intelligence.
South Africa’s economy has long been defined by big holes. The wealth from its diamond and gold mines helped make it Africa’s most industrialised country in the 20th century. More recently a big hole ...
Why would a harmless practice whose value is symbolic at best trigger such a violent reaction? (After all, king or no king, Igbos in South Africa—which is the same for Igbos anywhere in the ...
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