Is the third time the charm? The idiom, without the ‘is’ and the question mark, expresses the hope that a third attempt at something will succeed after two failed attempts. If you do not like the... 

Last week’s Junior Indaba was a clear indication the South African government and its mining industry have still not found a single direction in which to pull together – and it is absolutely... 

In a world turned upside down by the performative antics of US President Donald Trump, it is easy to lose one’s bearings and one’s cool. And while the South Africans that entered the White House... 

A pet peeve of mine is the woefully low levels of investment in Africa’s public healthcare sector – a reality that doesn’t seem to trouble the ruling elites, who hop on the next overseas-bound... 

It has been a busy month for Gabon. Former coup leader Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema was sworn in as President on May 3 for a first seven-year term after the Constitutional Court affirmed his April... 

Want to play a word game? How many five-letter words can you make with the letters I, T, A and C in any position? If you are up for the challenge, it might well help to improve your Wordle® skills.... 

Make mining strong again, grow agriculture optimally, uplift tourism, spend on infrastructure, and look north, south, east and west for trading partnerships. These are the steps that South Africa... 

Two days from today, Africans at home and abroad will mark the sixty-second anniversary of Africa Day, which commemorates the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was... 

Updating South Africa’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for electricity has always been a perilous endeavour. Despite various attempts, it took nearly ten years for the 2010 edition to be updated,... 

“Scarcity is the judgement decreed by our economy,” Marshall Sahlins writes in Stone Age Economics – a line that casts long shadows over our current age, where knowledge and productivity are... 

You might be reading this article after the May 23 deadline for comments on the ‘Price Preference System (PPS) Discount on Ferrous Scrap’. But this does not mean you should stop reading. Instead,... 

Cable theft continues to be rife and exceedingly disruptive and dangerous. On safety risk alone, those removing cabling from traffic light systems need to be viewed under a far more widespread... 

The announcement by Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa that the load factor for proposed gas-to-power (GtP) plants in South Africa will be increased from 25% to above 50% was... 

They say democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the people. Increasingly, however, it seems the people – particularly in  Africa – are losing faith in the idea. Nowhere is...