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Open Society Foundations adapts to a new world
The George Soros-founded private funder says it does not have the capacity to fill the void left by USAid cuts
Infodemic to infowar: The circus of disinformation will spin on
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
Democracy at risk
Attempts to discredit election outcomes can be dangerous and the United States would do well to heed the warnings from history
Departing Facebook comms chief takes blame for PR firm controversy
The announcement by Elliot Schrage came after Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg pledged a "thorough" review of its use of a conservative consulting firm
US midterms: Key factors of the 2018 elections
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
Kavanaugh poised for confirmation to US Supreme Court
If he wins confirmation, Kavanaugh will seal a conservative majority on the nine-seat high court for years to come
Russia bans George Soros foundations to ‘squeeze life out of civil society’
Russia has branded foundations run by the financier a threat to its constitutional order and banned them from disbursing grants to Russian partners.
Vodacom sells Tanzania phone towers to Soros-backed company
In a bid to increase earnings, Vodacom has sold over a thousand phone towers to the George-Soros-backed Helios Towers Tanzania.
Soros: Worst of economic crisis behind us
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.
It’s the Fred and Fan show
Larry Elliott takes a look at the bail-out which is a nationalisation designed to avert the worst market collapse since the 1930s.
Greenspan says investors concerned about SA
Investors have concerns about South Africa, former Federal Reserve chairperson Alan Greenspan told a conference in Sandton on Tuesday.
Super-rich face backlash as credit crunch hits home in US
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”…
How to make the system work
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…
Soros: China, India are Africa’s ‘new colonialists’
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,…