The electoral clock is ticking in Malawi. Voters head to the polls on September 16 to elect new municipal councillors, new MPs and a new President – if they choose not to renew the mandate of the... 

Can it survive the ‘nervous nineties’ and reach a 100 not out? In case you are keeping score, it has survived for 33 419 days, but the real question is about the next 3 061. It seems that, similar... 

“We have R25-billion to deploy in Mpumalanga for wind farms, and we can't get budget quotes.” These were the words of Seriti Green at the latest Coal & Energy Transition Day in Johannesburg. Seriti... 

There are worrying signs that the economic reforms under way in the electricity sector are stalling, or are even facing active resistance. Arguably, this development is predictable given the... 

A chartered Global Crossing Airlines flight touched down at Eswatini’s King Swati III International Airport on the morning of July 16, carrying five passengers described by a US official in... 

Reality sings a different tune these days: hard power has thrown out the soft power model of the late Joseph Nye. Hard power now decides the terms, and the world has to adapt to the new posture... 

How happy are you? You might rightly question the means of measurement to provide a coherent response. In case you need reminding, ‘happiness’ is defined as a sense of wellbeing, joy or contentment... 

South Africans were in China so successfully for the Shanghai Platinum Week that our biggest platinum group metals (PGMs) company has decided to establish a permanent international metals marketing... 

A picture has started to emerge of the potential economic fallout of America’s existing, as well as potentially imminent, tariffs on South African goods. Recent econometric modelling has helped to... 

Corrupt African political elites that plunder their countries’ coffers and stash the loot abroad –  with Western capitals their favourite vaults – have developed an astonishing sense of... 

As I was preparing this article on Nigeria’s progress since President Bola Tinubu took office in May 2023, news filtered through of the death of his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari. Tinubu had been... 

What were you doing on September 20, 2019? What made the day memorable? If you do not remember reading an article in this column titled ‘Butterfly approach to trade’, then you should sense my... 

Operation Vulindlela deserves a solid thumbs up. Let’s have more collective structural reform implementation. It’s already clear that working together as South Africa Incorporated is a successful... 

The decision by US President Donald Trump to implement ‘reciprocal tariffs’ of 30% on those South African goods not specifically exempted or subject to sector-specific duties is a major blow...