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Eskom chief executive Dan Marokane says coal is important for the country to drive industrialisation. (Getty Images)
ANDRE DE RUYTER

It’s business vs business in fight over Eskom probe funding

Business Unity South Africa’s chief executive has accused the organisation’s president of throwing the lobby under the bus in a meeting with the president

  • Sarah Smit
5 min read
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen meets with President of Zambia Hakainde Hichilema during the US – Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
CHINA

Janet Yellen’s African trip fans the flames of the ‘debt trap’ narrative

An inflexible, hostile stance towards China could have negative effects on the West and its presence in the rest of the world

  • Emmanuel Matambo
11 min read
In August South Africa will host the 15th Brics summit in its capacity as the current Brics chair. Photo: Getty Images
BRICS SUMMIT

South Africa navigates crucial 2023 diplomatic calendar

Resisting Western influence and retaining our autonomy must be essential components of our international agenda

  • Nontobeko Hlela
8 min read
No sudden moves: President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses people protesting against gender-based violence outside parliament. Photo: Ziyaad Douglas/Gallo Images
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

‘Tentative’ President Ramaphosa has a council for every crisis but no solutions

Obsessive consultation is a pronounced feature of Ramaphosa’s leadership style, however, it has done him – and the country – few favours

  • Emsie Ferreira
7 min read
Janet Yellen, US Treasury secretary, left, and Enoch Godongwana, South Africa’s finance minister, during a meeting at the National Treasury in Pretoria. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images
ELECTRICITY

US Treasury Secretary lauds South Africa’s just energy transition

Janet Yellen’s statements on energy come amid stage five load-shedding

  • Anathi Madubela
2 min read
A child displaced by drought holds her nose as she walks past the rotting carcasses of goats that died from hunger and thirst on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia. People from across Gedo in Somalia have been displaced due to drought conditions and forced to come to Dollow, in the southwest, to search for aid. Somalia has suffered three failed rainy seasons in a row, making this the worst drought in decades, and 6 million people are in crisis levels of food insecurity. The problems are being compounded by the rising costs of food prices because of the Ukraine war. Hence, hundreds of thousands of livestock have died from hunger and thirst. (Sally Hayden/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
AFGHANISTAN

Hungry for action campaign: Time for a food and finance revolution

The world must act now because the food system is broken and families from Mozambique to Ireland don’t know where their next meal will come from

  • Mary Robinson
  • Graça Machel
5 min read
FEDERAL RESERVE

Below-zero rates spook the market

With global conditions deteriorating markedly, Janet Yellen has admitted that the Federal Reserve will have to be cautious.

  • Staff Reporter
7 min read
INTEREST RATES

Mario Draghi unleashes fresh wave of monetary stimulus

Fed chair Janet Yellen’s raising of US interest rates has prompted the European banker to loosen monetary policy to stimulate consumer prices.

  • Jeff Black
  • Jeff Black Guest Author
4 min read
Inside information favours those setting the gold price.
GLENYS SIM

Gold extends its decline on prospects of further tapering by the Fed

Gold extended its biggest drop in three weeks on prospects of further cuts to the US’s quantitative easing programme.

  • Glenys Sim
2 min read
New head of the US Federal Reserve Bank
BLOOMBERG AUTHOR

Gold retreats from five-year highs

Investors drew away from the yellow metal after Fed Reserve chairman Janet Yellen confirmed that tapering in the US would continue to be gradual.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read