Ahead of the fifth BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) Summit in Durban on 26-27 March, South African companies are demanding that the African National Congress...

Gao Jianke revealed in late January that Wesizwe Platinum had received a US$650 million loan from the China Development Bank for the expansion of the Bakubung mining project,...

A referendum on Zimbabwe’s new constitution has been set for 16 March. Despite a challenge by the National Constitutional Assembly, a pro-democracy group, which was dismissed by Judge...

President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address to Parliament in Cape Town on 14 February was drowned out by news of the arrest of Olympic champion Oscar...

The National Development Plan is ‘a road map to a South Africa where all will have water, electricity, sanitation, jobs, housing, public transport, adequate nutrition, education, social protection,...

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan managed to calm business and assuage the public with an assured budget speech. The programme is slick and Gordhan is winning praise for...

At its Mangaung conference in December, the African National Congress resolved to put economic diplomacy at the heart of the South Africa’s foreign policy. Now a bitter battle...

Zambia’s next elections are not until 2016 but Wynter Kabimba, the Justice Minister and Secretary General of the governing Patriotic Front, is positioning himself to succeed President Michael...

President Michael Sata’s promise to reduce mass employment is yet to be fulfilled. Although he has raised the necessary finance, public institutions are having trouble translating it into...

President Joyce Banda wants to build a parliamentary majority from defectors from the Democratic Progressive Party to her own People’s Party. She founded the PP after the...