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As South Africa prepares to host the sixth SA Investment Conference, government leaders and economists say global instability, including tension in the Middle East, unexpectedly boost the country’s appeal as a stable investment destination

SA pitches itself as Africa’s gateway amid global market turbulence

As South Africa prepares to host the sixth SA Investment Conference, government leaders and economists say global instability, including tension in the Middle East, unexpectedly…

EARNING ROBOTICS: :Xoliswa Mahlangu, head of digital learning and technology at Sifiso EdTech (left) and Shoprite Foundation director Maude Modise, watching pupils at Siyifunile Secondary School in Mpumalanga learning robotics. Picture: Supplied

Robotics lab launched in Mpumalanga school to boost digital skills in rural classrooms

The Shoprite Foundation and the Development Bank of Southern Africa have jointly funded a robotics laboratory in Dullstroom to expand access to coding and digital education for…

Projects like the Medupi and Kusile (above) power stations, which experienced extended timelines and higher-than-planned costs, highlight the complexities involved in large-scale infrastructure delivery within parts of South Africa’s public sector

The critical role of banks in unlocking the success of PPPs

For the economy to grow, it is imperative that the public and private sectors work together in a coordinated, transparent manner

The second phase of the Lesotho Highlands must not repeat the mistakes of the first phase in which women were displaced and disempowered. Photo: File

Lesotho Highlands Water Project must work with women, not against them

Public banks – Development Bank of Southern Africa, African Development Bank and the New Development Bank – and the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority render women invisible…

Johannesburg’s inner city. Cities in Africa can benefit from genuinely affordable financing. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy, M&G

Rebooting the global financial system will pay dividends in Africa

Transforming the world’s monetary policies would benefit African cities and the continent’s public development banks have a key role to play

Lungile Tom, Acting Head: Project Finance at the DBSA.

DBSA continues to create clean energy generation initiatives for local communities

The Embedded Generation Investment Programme is a commitment to a sustainable, energy-efficient future

Residents, community organisations and civil society groups across Johannesburg have united to demand urgent action to end the city’s deepening water crisis. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

African cities’ water crisis: ‘Too much, too little, too polluted’

Rapid urbanisation and flooding pose a risk to the continent’s cities that, by 2050, will be home to more than 900 million people, mostly living in slums

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana.(Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Pressure builds as Enoch Godongwana forges on with fiscal consolidation

Enoch Godongwana is currently seized with preparations for the medium-term budget, which will give details on whether fiscal stability is still possible

After 14 years of blackouts, the president has promised to expedite load-shedding’s finale. This is as the social compact to fix Eskom has seemingly stalled. (Photo by TADEU ANDRE / AFP)

Eskom compact: The plan to end the energy crisis has ‘dragged on’

After 14 years of blackouts, the president has promised to expedite load-shedding’s finale

Freedom to express fundamental rights versus administrative action by the South African Revenue Service exposes a fundamental link to communal interests and justice in a constitutional democracy. (Oupa Nkosi)

‘Bain was happy the focus was only on Sars’: Athol Williams

The whistleblower fears that Zondo’s recommendation that the firm’s contracts with public entities be scrutinised will be stonewalled – and implicates Telkom.

Fouled: Climate activist group Extinction Rebellion protest on March 12 in Johannesburg against Standard Bank’s financing of a pipeline in Tanzania and Uganda. Photo: Elizabeth Sejake/Rapport/Gallo Images

Public finance institutions should be more transparent on their decision making

Despite commitments to climate resilience, many continue to ignore their social mandates and push ahead with funding for fossil fuel projects.

1 Military Hospital. (Gallo)

DBSA inherits costly 1 Mil refurb headache

The Development Bank of Southern Africa was appointed in 2019 as the implementing agent to accelerate infrastructure projects for the defence department.

United Democratic Movement (UDM) leader Bantu Holomisa. (Photo by Tebogo Letsie/Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Scopa to investigate claims of mismanagement at DBSA

This decision is despite the finance minister and the bank’s chief executive dismissing the UDM leader’s allegations as unfounded

Q&A Sessions: ‘Media isn’t dying, it’s changing’

Phuti Mahanyele-Dabengwa, chief executive of global internet company Naspers, has held senior posts in investment and development banking. She tells Tshegofatso Mathe about her…

The memorandum was signed by Infrastructure in South Africa, an entity of the department of public works and infrastructure; the national treasury; and the Development Bank of Southern Africa. (Madelene Cronjé/M&G)

Government kickstarts the National Infrastructure Fund

Treasury, the department of public works’ Infrastructure in South Africa, and the DBSA have signed a memorandum of agreement that mandates the bank to establish and manage the fund

Olympus Manthata, Head: DBSA Climate Finance at DBSA (Centre) participated in an OECD panel discussion on the role of national development finance institutions in scaling up sustainable financial instruments at COP 25 in Spain

DBSA participates at COP2

The bank provides vital financial backing for green initiatives

DBSA is a key funder in various projects under REIPP. (Photo: David Harrison)

The DBSA finances climate-friendly infrastructure

The bank manages the design and construction of key projects in education, health, housing and renewable energy

Rough ride: Taxi drivers march to the offices of the Ekurhuleni mayor and the city manager demanding they resign. The industry has dodged procurement processes and allegedly made death threats.

Taxi industry puts gun to metro’s head

Minibus operators blame Ekurhuleni for creating problems but documents reveal another truth

Minister Pravin Gordhan gets a warm greeting from former minister Trevor Manuel after his first budget speech as the new

Thieves pillaging our democracy

Eusebius McKaiser writes about "thieves" that are threatening South Africa’s democracy

Non-Americans often ask me what it has been like to live through President Donald Trump’s administration after the heady years of Obama. The answer, for me, is complicated.

World Economic Forum needs to move beyond spin if it’s going to help Africa

Africa needs to improve governance, build infrastructure, and reduce trade barriers to achieve inclusive growth