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Perfect storm?
24th January 2025 By: Terence Creamer

There is every reason to expect that 2025 will be a year of disruption. It’s an expectation informed largely by the reality of widespread national political rupture, epitomised by the return of... 


Climate’s broken clock
24th January 2025 By: Martin Zhuwakinyu

A Kenyan human rights activity recently shared a memory from his childhood, recalling how he used to think his peasant grandmother was a magician. Every year, she seemed to know exactly when to... 


Metal fatigue
24th January 2025 By: Riaan de Lange

“I can’t believe the news today (January 06); oh, I can’t close my eyes and make it go away. How long, how long must we sing this song? How long? How long?”  – to borrow the opening lyrics of Irish... 


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Everyone needs to take climate change far more seriously
24th January 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Things are happening regularly that point to climate change abatement being far more urgent than many global leaders seem prepared to acknowledge. In several places, investors in insurance... 


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Unsurprising yet painful
17th January 2025 By: Terence Creamer

News that the struggling Newcastle Works will close at the end of this month is yet another painful reminder of South Africa’s ongoing deindustrialisation. The development itself is not surprising,... 


Dirty gold, hidden profits
17th January 2025 By: Martin Zhuwakinyu

Television coverage in the recent past of the drama unfolding at an abandoned mine shaft in Stilfontein, in the North-West province – where police launched an operation in October to force illegal... 


From Baku to G20: reflections on multilateralism
17th January 2025 By: Saliem Fakir

I live in a divided mental state over the yearly climate negotiations. The Conference of Parties (COP) remain an important platform for global collective action, but to say they are not fraying –... 


Year of the safeguard
17th January 2025 By: Riaan de Lange

Why? Yes, let’s start the year with a ‘why’. Why did the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac) announce the initiation of its safeguard investigation in the... 


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South Africa must go all out this year to regain ferroalloy renown
17th January 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Year 2025 must be used to win back at least some of the huge market share that South Africa has lost in the ferrochrome and ferromanganese businesses. The smelters that turned ore into alloy in the... 


Trading blows
Trading blows
13th December 2024 By: Terence Creamer

Trade and industrial policy will play a more prominent and potentially more destabilising role given that President-elect Donald Trump has signalled his intention to leverage tariffs as part of his... 


Africa’s cybercrime explosion
13th December 2024 By: Martin Zhuwakinyu

Cybercrime has exploded into a menace of epic proportions – and Africa is no safe haven. In fact, the digital underworld on the continent has been so busy that more than 1 000 offenders were caught... 


Africa’s turbulent year ahead
13th December 2024 By: Tara O’Connor

As another tumultuous year closes, global political tectonic plates are still shifting, causing political earthquakes and violent eruptions across the US, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The... 


WTO DG reappointed
13th December 2024 By: Riaan de Lange

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) Council on November 29 announced, by consensus, the early reappointment of its director-general, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, to a second four-year term, which begins... 


We’ve simply got to  make South Africa  a better place
We’ve simply got to make South Africa a better place
13th December 2024 By: Martin Creamer

As we enter the New Year, our thoughts and actions should be directed towards making this country a better place. All South Africans, in whatever circumstance they find themselves, need to do... 


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Sanral highlights megaprojects, road improvements
13th December 2024 By: Trent Roebeck

With South Africa’s roads having to withstand increased traffic volumes, owing to struggling ports and rail infrastructure issues, the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) has... 


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