The expansion of the BRICS in 2023-2024 has led to fundamental changes on the global energy map, creating an alliance with a critical mass of resources. The BRICS countries control 35.2 per cent of ...

The political fallout from Trump’s reciprocal tariff regime has wider ramifications. Arrangements that were formed during ...

The recently announced US trade measures are the actions of a particular politician with a unique vision about the US’s global role. He is the duly elected President of the United States of America, ...

The Trump administration called these measures “reciprocal”, asserting they mirrored and counteracted trade barriers faced by US exports. On 31 July, President Trump signed another Executive Order ...

The fact that the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors was able to release a joint statement after the ...

South Africa’s state-owned electricity company, Eskom, is trying to protect its monopoly in the face of the envisaged transition to a liberalised energy market. The utility has gone to the Gauteng ...

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One in three, or 32.9%, of adults in South Africa are unemployed, highlighting that the economy is suffocating under the weight of structural inefficiencies that reforms could fix, says business ...

South Africa, long regarded as the continent’s most advanced economy, is moving decisively to counter the fallout from Washington’s latest tariff measures by turning to Beijing for new trade ...

Trudi Hartzenberg is the Executive Director of tralac. She has a special interest in trade-related capacity building. Her research areas include trade policy issues, regional integration, investment, ...

New online tracker provides updated dashboard of South Africa’s reform progress (Engineering News) Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) has officially launched a free online platform that provides ...

As South Africa continues to scramble in search of alternative markets after the US slapped 30% tariffs on South African goods, the Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, has revealed that a new ...