South Africa isn’t doing enough to tackle corruption. Key regulatory and oversight agencies are underfunded. And accountability is weak.
South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa: His party’s 2022 elective conference and the country’s 2024 national elections will define political choices.
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One of the main lessons from the VBS Bank collapse in South Africa is that audit reports need to be treated with a degree of circumspection. In some cases they will require independent verification.
South Africa’s Finance Minister Tito Mboweni must walk a fiscal tightrope.
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Free university education and land redistribution without compensation have far-reaching implications for South Africa’s economy, and requires exceptional leadership.
There are claims President Jacob Zuma may push through irresponsible proposals relating to higher education funding.
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The imposition of the fee free higher education proposal on South Africa’s National Treasury without due consideration represents an escalation of the state capture led by President Jacob Zuma.
A protester calling for President Jacob Zuma’s removal.
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The misfortunes experienced by Brian Molefe, the CEO of South Africa’s power utility Eskom, shows that the battle for the country’s public purse is not a one way bet.
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has shafted and shifted 20 cabinet posts.
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The focus will now be on how the social democratic and left-leaning members of South Africa’s cabinet – the “constitutionalists” – will respond to the reshuffle.
Social grant recipients waiting in Gugulethu, Cape Town. A battle over social grant payment tender threatens the system.
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The South African Social Security Agency has created a crisis that threatens to deliver social grant recipients on a silver platter into the hands of unscrupulous financial services companies.
South African President Jacob Zuma just escaped a bid by some of his senior colleagues in the governing ANC to remove him.
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It is common to reduce the politics of the ANC to a battle between personalities. A closer look suggest that this is a fight between two factions, both of them products of trends in the economy.
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma (right) and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa. The jury is out on whether Ramaphosa will break ranks.
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The stakes have not been higher since the heady days of the early 1990s when South Africa also looked over the brink. Now it is less about brink and more about who will blink