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Failure by South Africa’s municipalities to provide housing for the poor violates a Constitutional Court ruling.
The lifting of UN Sanctions is unlikely to end internal and external pressure for reform and greater democracy in Eritrea.
Steinhoff was the darling of investors, asset managers, analysts and financial journalists. But its success was built on shaky foundations.
The latest data offer a vital resource for understanding Gauteng’s multi-faceted challenges.
Moyane’s axing ends one of the last vestiges of Zuma’s continued influence in the country’s governance.
Herders and farmers are unhappy about the way a corrupt state exploits rural peasants.
Initiatives to boost South Africa’s economy could reinforce structural weaknesses without addressing the high levels of inequality.
Aquaculture is endangering the marine environment, threatening the livelihood of small-scale fishers and food security.
South Africa’s president has firmly thrown his weight behind the private sector. This could prove significant.
South Africa’s job summit ignored the great chasms that exist on how to create jobs.
South Africa’s finance minister has chosen to walk a tightrope rather than face tough choices about cutting expenditure or raising taxes.
South Africa and Kenya have some valuable lessons for other African countries on how to finance urban infrastructure development.
A study of the mobility of poverty, or the movement of people in and out of poverty over time, provides a much more accurate picture.
The damage done during the preceding decade will have a negative effect on South Africa’s public finances and the economy for some time to come.
Proposed changes to South African labour laws threaten to set back workers rights.
Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration is struggling to overcome the national economic destruction wreaked on Zimbabwe over two decades under Robert Mugabe.
Many of the structural and institutional deficiencies that caused the collapse of Nigeria Airways are still present.
Turning prisons into a market opportunity could open them up to corruption.
South Africa needs to rethink the role of the informal economy as it mulls over ideas to beat joblessness.
South Africa’s jobs summit failed to acknowledge fundamental issues in the approach to development and job creation.
Mobile money transfers have become the norm in Somalia. Transactions total as much as $2.7bn a month.
South Africa’s new finance minister comes with considerable skills and political finesse needed to steer the country out of its economic quagmire.
Ramaphosa’s stimulus package is more interesting for what it says about the politics of economic decision making than for its likely impact on the economy.
African economies could benefit more from backward linkages to the mining industry than from beneficiation.