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Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. (Photo by Frank Augstein – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Pressure on Sunak is building after the UK local elections

The Tories are comforting themselves for their loss by arguing that historically every government during the mid-term suffers losses in local elections

Four people died last week after a small boat packed with migrants capsized in the Channel in freezing weather conditions

UK set for ruling on plan to deport migrants to Rwanda

Four people died last week after a small boat packed with migrants capsized in the Channel in freezing weather conditions

Prime Minister Mark Rutte

Dutch expected to apologise for 250 years of slavery

Prime minister expected to give speech on ‘meaningful moment’

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak meets Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine

UK’s Sunak exposes his naivety on foreign policy

This was evident in the British prime minister’s speech at the lord mayor’s banquet, which customarily focuses on foreign policy

Higher lending rates and weaker economic outlooks will inevitably temper once spirited housing markets, with signs of cooling already in evidence.. (Oupa Nkos)

SA housing market to fall off a hill, not a cliff

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

Both employer and employee classes want government services for themselves and likewise want to pay minimal taxes.

A deficit spending scam destroyed Liz Truss, UK’s prime minister. Who is next?

UK governments borrow money for deficit spending from corporations and the rich. But the very beneficiaries of the tax cuts Truss proposed were these ‘investors’, who baulked

Punished: The United Kingdom’s short-lived prime minister, Liz Truss (left), was punished for introducing an aggressive tax-cutting policy and seeking to increase government spending. Photo: Stefan Rousseau/POOL/AFP

Must we really endure ‘punishing’ markets?

Policymakers have been warned to remain disciplined as economies navigate headwinds — no matter how much it hurts

South African Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago. Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Beware empty promises of expansionary policies, says Kganyago

The Reserve Bank governor has cautioned against ‘reckless’ fiscal and monetary policies amid global shocks

Runner: Former mayor Mzwandile Masina has finally made an appearance. Photo: OJ Koloti/Gallo Images

Did missing decuplets cost the mayor his job?

Mayors in Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni are disappearing as fast as the infamous Sauer Street decuplets

Britain’s former finance chief inherits a UK economy that was headed for recession even before the recent turmoil triggered by Liz Truss. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Rishi Sunak inherits UK economy in crisis

Britain’s former finance chief inherits a UK economy that was headed for recession even before the recent turmoil triggered by Liz Truss

Rishi Sunak is the UK’s next leader. Here’s what he doesn’t want you to know

From offshore dealings to right-wing think tanks, the former chancellor has not been transparent about his finances

Prime Minister Liz Truss speaks during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, London. (Photo by House of Commons/PA Images via Getty Images)

South Africa’s ANC, like the Tories, rides the ‘tiger’ of populism

Drunk on hubris, the UK’s Tory party has followed a populist path to instability. The ANC and its opposition peers follow a similar path

UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned on Thursday. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Did Liz Truss mislead the public about her husband’s secretive work?

As the prime minister fights to remain in power, deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner demands she come clean over her interests

Liz Truss speaks in Downing Street as she resigns as Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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Prime Minister Liz Truss quits as UK’s Tories in chaos

Truss bowed to the inevitable after her right-wing platform of tax cuts disintegrated and as many MPs among the ruling Conservatives revolted

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (GCIS)

Ramaphosa cuts cabinet freebies and winds his neck in — again

The changes in the ministerial handbook giving his cabinet pals free electricity and water appear to have be written in pencil — or crayon