The George Soros-founded private funder says it does not have the capacity to fill the void left by USAid cuts
More people have died in South Africa from Covid-19 than have been murdered. This hasn’t stopped a misinformation pandemic from trying to misrepresent that reality
Attempts to discredit election outcomes can be dangerous and the United States would do well to heed the warnings from history
The announcement by Elliot Schrage came after Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg pledged a "thorough" review of its use of a conservative consulting firm
The US midterm election has been a tug of war over key issues, but none has had a more dramatic impact on voters than Donald Trump
If he wins confirmation, Kavanaugh will seal a conservative majority on the nine-seat high court for years to come
Russia has branded foundations run by the financier a threat to its constitutional order and banned them from disbursing grants to Russian partners.
In a bid to increase earnings, Vodacom has sold over a thousand phone towers to the George-Soros-backed Helios Towers Tanzania.
The global economy has already passed the worst of the economic crisis and should soon pull out of its slump, George Soros said on Monday.
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/ 18 September 2008
Larry Elliott takes a look at the bail-out which is a nationalisation designed to avert the worst market collapse since the 1930s.
Investors have concerns about South Africa, former Federal Reserve chairperson Alan Greenspan told a conference in Sandton on Tuesday.
The ”American dream” of unashamed wealth and the opportunity for all to acquire it has reached a crisis point before: in the Depression, the oil shock, in the ”greed is good” Eighties and the madness of the dotcom bubble. But America’s relationship with wealth — uncomfortable as it has sometimes been — has always been built on the same foundation.
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/ 19 February 2008
Billionaire philanthropist George Soros made his fortune on the markets and is giving a lot of it to Africa. Last week he hosted an Africa Forum in Dakar on whether the continent is moving closer to his open society ideal. Ferial Haffajee asked him about the global economy, African governance and the role of China in Africa.
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/ 6 February 2008
Hungry for oil and minerals, India and China have become Africa’s new colonialists, exploiting the world’s poorest continent in the same way as its old European masters, financier George Soros said on Tuesday. ”They are in the process of repeating the mistakes that the colonial powers have made,” said Soros.