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The president did highlight investment in digital infrastructure and data centres, gestures that could, in theory, benefit streaming, gaming and digital content production. (GCIS)
ARTS AND CULTURE

Sona 2026 leaves the creative sector behind

South Africa’s creative sector went into the State of the Nation address with a clear demand: recognition, reform and rescue. What it received was silence. Just days before…

  • Kibo Ngowi
4 min read
Disillusioned: Although the industry previously mobilised in February 2025, the current wave of protests reflects a continued failure by the government to act decisively. Photo: Supplied
ARTS AND CULTURE POLICY

A sector in freefall

As productions stall and jobs disappear, film workers say a broken incentive scheme threatens the future of one of South Africa’s most visible industries

  • Kibo Ngowi
8 min read
AMSA BAILOUT

Trade commission protects legacy steel giant from competitive imports

An outdated iron ore beneficiation value chain is holding back South Africa’s industrialisation, even as government imposes tariffs mainly affecting China to shield ArcelorMittal…

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
7 min read
South Africa needs to adopt electric vehicles more aggressively — not just to protect the environment but also for the survival of the automotive sector. (Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
AUDI

Wake-up call for SA vehicle sector

Exports could suffer as the country fails to get into gear on producing electric vehicles

  • Anathi Madubela
4 min read
The pandemic is testing the resilience of most economies, especially those of developing countries. (Madelene Cronjé)
CORONAVIRUS

All hands on deck, we’re trying to revive the economy

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

  • Duane Newman
6 min read