Janet Yellen’s statements on energy come amid stage five load-shedding
Recent policy reversals have left investors optimistic about the country but more is needed to ensure long-term growth
The decrease will probably lead to the South African Reserve Bank being less aggressive with rate hikes next week
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana said ending blackouts is at the top of the government’s priorities as the country grapples with tough economic conditions
It’s a rocky road to a functional democratic future for the United States, but fighting injustice is a long-term task
Economy hitting geopolitical tensions, pressure on consumers and load-shedding will likely stick around
Emboldened by the overturning of Roe v Wade, Western conservative movements are dialling up their Africa campaigns. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Over the past decade, Egypt has recovered about 29 000 antiquities found to have been taken abroad through illegitimate means
Congress has never made a criminal referral against a sitting or former president, and it will add to the clamour among Trump’s opponents for prosecution
American voters support Ukraine and the Republicans know this, but this may change if inflation skyrockets
Prices have slowly retreated from their July peak, when inflation increased at its highest rate since 2009
A senior official has linked the US approach toward Iran’s protests with Tehran’s foreign and security policies regarding Russia
The award-winning country music pair are the subject of a new documentary by filmmaker Jesse Rudoy, which premiered at the New York film festival
For the first time since the 1960s, anti-imperialism is back on the US left’s agenda. South Africa should follow suit
Neither side is willing to push the other and no agreements or concessions are likely to be reached
The former president says his announcement will be ‘perhaps the most important speech given in the history of the USA’
The women’s vote, abortion, the youth vote and concerns about democracy are factors influencing voters
The alleged cell is apparently led by led by Farhad Hoomer, who was sanctioned by the US in March this year
The market is set to slow as consumers feel higher bond costs but the slump will not be as dramatic as in economies where buoyancy is the rule not the exception
A country cannot survive in isolation, particularly given that leaders of rightwing parties have ascended in countries around the world
Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado region has been hit by two insurgent attacks in three days
The threat is real, say experts about the warning from the United States about a possible strike in Sandton
The renewal comes as the Harare government cracks down on members of the opposition and journalists, alongside proposed amendments to laws critics say will stifle the work of NGOs
Authoritarian would-be emperors such as Putin and Jinping and the US’s military-industrial complex erode the open society and its values of individual freedoms
It was not only objects that were removed, knowledges — social, political, ecological and epistemological organisation —‚on the continent were destroyed
China’s economic rise and growing footprint presents an alternative to the West
Borrowers face another 75 basis point repo rate hike this week, as inflation looks to stay uncomfortably high
If we want to avoid seeing the world through an imperial one-way mirror in which “we” are moral and benign and “they” are not, we must extract ourselves from the submissive void and start telling the truth
A recent spate of killings has reignited the conversation about firearm control. What does the evidence say about the kind of policies that work to prevent gun violence?
Via its institutions the US is pushing a covert agenda to establish Western beachheads in Ukraine, Hong Kong and Taiwan
The US government has appointed the first African head of its Aids fund, Pepfar. John Nkengasong, a Cameroonian virologist
The market is the pillar of capitalist ideology, yet it is just another human institution invented and reinvented periodically across human history