South Africa’s economy features lackluster growth and record unemployment, key issues which both the ANC and the centrist DA, the two largest groupings in the new government, say are a top priority.

South Africa's economy stagnated in the first quarter, eking out quarter-on-quarter growth of just 0.1%, as contractions in ...

Vladimir Lenin famously said, “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” The year 2025 is proving to be such a year, not only for South Africa but for ...

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa met senior leaders of Johannesburg and Gauteng, the province it's located in, in March 2025 to discuss ways to arrest the steep decline in South Africa's ...

The brother of former president Thabo Mbeki said the power of the ruling middle class must be diluted by the poor, the ...

South Africa has for years experienced unreliable electricity and water shortages, which together have hampered the country’s economic growth. It’s a vicious cycle: In Gauteng province ...

South Africa’s National Assembly approved the Treasury’s fiscal framework, bringing the adoption of the annual budget a step ...

After two historic Russia-Africa summits, several conferences and bilateral meetings intended to move Russia's relations from ...

It is an old leftist trope that South Africa’s problems can be read across a stark racial divide – let alone be resolved by old leftist ideologies of expropriation and state directed economic ...

The outreach highlighted the transformative role that financial inclusion plays in driving economic equity, social ...

Donald Trump’s election as President of the world’s largest economy, the United States, has brought many long-simmering issues for South Africa and its relationship with the US to the ...