The South African tourism sector’s recovery is up to us, because local travel can save the sector
Our economy may have doubled since 1994, but this growth has not trickled down to improve the livelihoods of the majority of South Africans
A 10-point plan for streamlining South Africa’s economy
South Sudan has nearly run out of foreign currency – and this is just the tip of a much bigger economic crisis.
Comorbidities, particularly noncommunicable diseases have been put into the spotlight during the Covid-19 pandemic. How we approach preventing NCDs in the future will depend on how the effects of the coronavirus are framed
Discovering the life-sustaining importance of contact with actual people: colleagues, customers, and deputy presidents
Five months of no income means things are touch and go for Durban’s harbour charter industry, but with help they hope to weather the storm
Existing requirements for infrastructure spending, that require 30% of the budget to be spent on local small businesses, incentivises failure. Better to split the budgets and let each organisation play to its strengths
Existing government aid schemes must persist, and new ones created, at the same speed as Ters was set up, if we are to survive and thrive after the crisis
The fire of constitutional crisis burns in Mali, but observers shouldn’t ignore the smoke in Cote d’Ivoire.
The latest report shows the South Africa’s women will be the hardest hit demographic of the economic downturn
A decade of reconstruction looms post-Covid. This is our chance to restructure the economy to build a more inclusive one
Days of Cannibalism tells a compelling story about Chinese traders moving into Lesotho in search of economic success and the effects this has on the Basotho people
The Standard Bank’s Wealth Report for Africa for 2020 shows that the continent’s wealthiest individuals worry about what impact volatile political environments will have on their wealth
The economy as a whole will benefit from investment in young entrepreneurs
South Africa’s steel producer’s earnings dropped in the first quarter of 2020 because of low demand and a lacklustre economy, exacerbated by the Covid-19 lockdown
The country is among the G20 countries who have invested in electricity produced from coal, oil and gas at the cost of addressing climate change
The pandemic could mean collective re-evaluation of healthy and cost-effective eating and also highlights how companies need to be even more connected to the consumer
Repo rate drops to 3.5% as Reserve Bank predicts a 7.3% contraction in South Africa’s GDP
Amid the headwinds created by the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s time the Aloe ferox, which survives in dry, harsh conditions, is nurtured — but the options are limited
The pandemic has triggered a global economic crisis that will leave many South Africans without income security
This can be done by making the project’s 30% of the budget for local broad-based black economic empowerment a separate budget to break the feedback loop that greases the wheels of patronage.
Like all of us, Derek Davey is trying to put on a brave face as we live through a once-in-a-life-time disaster
Those who want a non-racial and equal society need to unite against both whites and blacks who collaborate to entrench a racist system
President Cyril Ramaphosa tells MPs he expects tough economic times ahead for South Africans, but the crisis is a chance to ‘look at the way we’re doing things’
President’s address covered the twin pandemics of Covid-19 and the murder and rape of women ‘who were killed by men’
The sector employs 60 000 people in the Western Cape alone. Whereas some centres have cut staff, others are reskilling and preparing for a different future
Technology is key for youth to access economic opportunities, however many cannot afford devices or data
Choosing this path would create work for many while also building the infrastructure that the country needs
The Covid-19 pandemic provides a chance to reflect on, reimagine and reset the global economic system
COMMENT The world is going through unprecedented challenges caused by a novel, rapidly transmitted coronavirus. Experts predict difficult times ahead with shrinking economies, loss of life and livelihoods and some structural changes — a new normal. Change is afoot in Africa as governments work tirelessly to identify their most vulnerable citizens for emergency disbursements. Banks, […]
The methods that work in Western nations rarely translate into African contexts