Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs will be felt across Africa
The need to ensure the independence of central banks was also one of the key recommendations from South Africa’s G20 finance track
Donald Trump’s executive orders are of dubious constitutionality, having violated civil rights of federal workers, weaponised immigration laws and limited Congress’s powers over…
The European Union has set out new regulations for citrus exports that will hurt South African citrus growers
In the name of free trade, countries went to war in the 1700s and 1800s. Today, trade is the continuation of the politics of war by other means
Free trade limits the policy space available to states worldwide, locking them into market-based trade and industrial policies.
The sense that the commissioners who nominated five candidates for appointment to the Constitutional Court voted for their constituencies, rather than with their conscience, is…
For all the excitement generated by the news of an mRNA vaccine hub being established in South Africa, the country is still going to need help making Covid-19 jabs
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that South Africa could count on him to fix the inequalities associated with combating the virus
Is Gates a superhero or a supervillain? That’s the wrong question. The right question is: How it is that one person can have so much influence over world health?
But Big Pharma and the world trade body haven’t shifted on sharing vaccine intellectual property
Last week, WTO members had another chance to level the playing field by sponsoring the Trips waiver for Covid-19 medical tools. They chose not to
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention only launched in 2017, but between Ebola, measles and the Covid-19 pandemic, it has had its work cut out for it. The…
Addressing the Covid-19 health and economic crisis requires international relations based on cooperation, the rule of law, collective action and shared principles
As India and South Africa push for relief at the World Trade Organisation through intellectual property rights waivers, India’s history of getting concessions may be the…
The new year started with a crucial step towards free trade between countries on the continent
Countries such as Australia, Germany and the UK are pushing back against the tax practices of global giants such as Google and Facebook
The complaint states that the background checks on journalists were “neither ordered nor authorised by any magistrate”
Allowing companies to sell products online will help them to stay afloat during the lockdown
These restrictions must be overturned or ignored because they are limiting the production and importing of essential medical equipment such as ventilators
