Regular readers of this column will recall the now scrapped and always controversial 2022 scheme under which the UK proposed to dispatch would-be asylum seekers arriving in small boats from France... 

An offhand remark caught my attention in the last stages of the Brazilian presidency of COP30. Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, the lead negotiator, acknowledged that Brazil could achieve only so... 

Customs and excises are called the ‘Cinderella taxes’ because they are often overlooked and undervalued. That said, they have what no other tax has – they have gods, with a planet named after one,... 

Eskom and the Electricity Ministry should be advised by the Cabinet to sit at the knee of their national transport cousin Transnet to learn just how positive public-private collaboration can be for... 

South Africa is weighing a range of policy measures as various manufacturing sectors – from ferroalloys and steel, to automotives – face existential threats. The causes of their eroded... 

It has been about a year since the US, traditionally the largest donor to global health initiatives, ended funding for thousands of programmes aimed at fighting infectious diseases and providing... 

Do you know how many ATA Carnets are issued every year, as well as the number of countries or customs territories that issue them and the value of the merchandise covered, in rand terms? The... 

The economy has posted four consecutive quarters of growth. There has been a steady reduction in unemployment. Poverty and inequality are down. Economic confidence is up, The performance of the... 

A new data portal made publicly available recently by the National Transmission Company South Africa (NTCSA) provides some encouraging insight into the country’s power generation project pipeline.... 

The latest edition of the peer-reviewed Science Advances journal, published last month, features an article revealing insights that will humble those who assumed sophistication arrived quite late... 

If anything, it is a bit early – 694 days early, in fact. In the week that I celebrate 9 135 days since my column first appeared, I sat down to write the ‘celebratory column’ and contemplated what... 

It’s extremely bad for the South African economy that it’s taking so long to get going on the mining exploration front. As is being pointed out around the resources world, mining success depends on... 

In his prime, it was typical for fans of those teams in which French international footballer N'Golo Kanté played, including Chelsea, to quip that “70% of the Earth is covered by water, the rest by... 

Africa has a crowded electoral calendar this year, with citizens in more than ten countries poised to cast their ballots. Elections have already taken place in Benin and Uganda, with the rest of...