As the sun sets on 2025, South Africa’s long-awaited recovery is becoming visible like the first sliver of a waxing crescent days after a new moon. While still modest, the 0.5% GDP expansion in the... 

Dear Africa in 2030, I write to you from the tail end of 2025, a year marked by restlessness – from Gen Z protests to fraught elections and a coup in Guinea-Bissau only days before the time of... 

Most of what we see in life comes from the way we organise life. As humans are social animals, the way they organise society can determine their fate. Organisation is bound by ideals of the future,... 

God willing, on Monday, February 2, 2026, I will celebrate 25 years since my first column was published in this magazine. I vividly recall going to their offices to meet with Terence and Kenneth... 

At this point in the history of our grossly disrupted world, it would be hugely beneficial for South Africans to pull in the same direction with vigour, enthusiasm and transparency – even if only... 

Following the recent approval of private access to State-owned freight company Transnet’s freight rail network and the allocation of 41 routes to 11 train operating companies (TOCs), the country is... 

After an initial investment by real estate investment company Growthpoint Properties, the privately owned Cape Winelands Airport (CWA) – which is owned by private airport operator RSA Aero – has... 

The common themes for project management failure in South African megaprojects are governance or procurement failures, corruption, equipment delivery delays, and legal and community issues. These... 

The complex and multidimensional nature of life in any country means that more than one thing is invariably true at the same time. Moreover, these truths can be highly contradictory, or as Charles... 

A few months back, I wrote in this column about insurgents holding boardroom veto power over development projects in Africa, referencing, among others, TotalEnergies’ $20-billion liquefied natural... 

If you have not heard of the Customs Code – a generic Customs Code – before, it is also known as the ‘unallocated importers reference number’. As far as I could establish, it has been around since... 

Hosting the G20 in South Africa and witnessing the B20 action around it has emphasised the importance of accelerating impressive developments that show promise. One of these is Project Rhynbow, the... 

When South Africa transitioned to democracy in the 1990s, and when climate constraints were not yet on the agenda, energy policy was arguably the country’s main industrial policy lever. The country... 

There is more in common between Cameroon and Cote d’Ivoire than their shared history as former French colonies: they are led by elderly men who just don’t want to leave power, and both secured new...