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Its been 13 years since Mauritius introduced codes of corporate governance for listed companies with mixed results. Its experience is useful for other developing countries looking to do the same.
There is no good case for bailing out South African Airways, it’s simply a matter of avoiding a potentially catastrophic debt default.
South Africa’s recently announced economic recovery plan failed to break away from the cumbersome neo-liberal line.
South African business can beat back the toxic ‘white monopoly capital’ title by doing things differently and not by shouting from roof tops.
A deeper analysis of South Africa’s joblessness reveals a scarier picture of large sections of the population suffering, especially the country’s youth.
The sub-imperial formation called BRICS, which pretends to be a progressive global force could be divided by a series of crises.
The membership base of South Africa’s trade union movement has undergone significant changes which begs the question: has it moved away from its working class roots to become a middle class movement.
Faced with a massive food production shortfall, Africa can look towards India’s Green Revolution to jump start its agricultural output.
South Africa’s Public Protector, has been exposed as incompetent after trying to meddle with the constitutional mandate of the country’s central bank.
Social media is here to stay and gives a platform to companies as well as consumers who hold the power to bring about change.
South Africa needs to restore trust and effective bargaining mechanisms between key stakeholders to revive the ailing economy.
The rise of the middle class in Africa is fuelling consumer economies and protection policies. But they tend to be disconnected from sustainability issues.
We should be wary of simplified and sweeping explanations about the scope for potential social and political reforms the middle classes can promote.
South Africa’s 14 point plan to achieve economic recovery lacks detail and vision of how the country is going to get itself out the prevailing economic crisis.
The idea that South Africa must look towards the International Monetary Fund to rescue itself from the prevailing crisis must be dismissed.
An alternative to an open fair dealing right, or as a clarification, South Africa’s copyright law could be amended with a specific provision to protect modern Internet uses.
The Gupta email leaks have exposed the involvement of some big private corporations. in the unfolding corruption scandal thus challenging the private sector to do some introspection.
West African leaders have nursed the idea of a common currency for the sub-region since the turn of the century. But conditions for member countries to make this happen appear unattainable.
The International Monetary Fund’s view of how to fix South Africa’s economy deserves to be seriously considered.
Until Acacia was served with $190 billion tax bill, it seemed as though Tanzania’s president wanted a new settlement with the mining companies. Now it looks as though he wants new mining companies.
The amendments to South Africa’s Money Bills Act don’t go far enough - for one, they do not address incoherence in Parliament’s oversight of taxes.
Managers have barely got to grips with the challenges posed by Millennials. What are they going to do with Generation Z?
The political cost of corruption is reaching unacceptable levels in South Africa. Reversing the effects of state decay on the poor will take short and long term interventions.
There’s a raging debate in South Africa about the role of its central bank. This is inevitable given that so much is changing in the world of central banking and in economic life.