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OPINION | Samancor and the dark side of foreign investment

The Samancor Chrome case shows how ‘investor-friendly’ policy has allowed corporate plunder to the detriment of long-term development

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana.

Budget 2023: ‘neutral good’ versus ‘neutral evil’

The finance minister’s commitment to toeing the line may send positive signals to ratings agencies, but at what cost?

OPINION | Climate change: We are wedded to our own suicide

Although the answers are not simple, the warnings have been coming for more than three decades and yet leaders are still not doing what must be done

Rebuild efforts have been mired in concerns about looting, but — if funding is spent properly — it could provide a much-needed stimulus to a province that was hit by two crises in less than a year. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

KZN flood ‘rebuild’ could offer much-needed economic stimulus

Rebuild efforts have been mired in concerns about looting, but it could provide a much-needed stimulus to a crisis-hit province

Balancing act: South African Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago has aimed to keep inflation anchored to 4.5%. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

As Reserve Bank eyes inflation, jobs suffer

The central bank has been criticised for hiking interest rates to the detriment of employment

Economist Mike Schussler.

Schussler: Attempt to discredit me deploys some dodgy data

Mike Schussler responds to a piece by Brian Ashley and Dick Forslund of the Alternative Information and Development Centre published in the M&G.

Madonsela

Madonsela, ‘politics’ spice up secrecy Bill submissions

Even after many months of heavy debate submissions made to a parliamentary committee on the Protection of Information Bill has managed to surprise.