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South Africa

Population: 62.47m
GDP: $373.23bn
Debt: 75.4% of GDP (2024)

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This wheel's on fire

China may be popular amongst some politicians, but support on the ground can be much thinner. In spite of increased trade and warmer relations, there has been a rise in anti-Chin...


Yukiya Amano and Abdul Samad Minty

International Atomic Energy Agency Governors, Japan and South Africa

The International Atomic Energy Agency is to decide on a successor to Egypt's Mohamed ElBaradei as Director-General on 26-27 March. Two IAEA Governors, strong>Yukiya Amano and Ab...


Zuma's Christmas

Among the issues facing African National Congress President Jacob Zuma over the coming holiday season will be the High Court’s decision on whether he should be prosecuted for corru...


Trying to cope

As the Congress of the People prepares to launch its party on 16 December in Bloemfontein, the governing African National Congress is challenging it legally and physically. The ANC...


The business of politics

The political fights within the governing African National Congress are spreading to banks and businesses

At the African National Congress's National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in mid-November, the incoming Chief Executive of ABSA Bank, Maria Ramos, turned up with the group's Ch...


How to reinvent Black Economic Empowerment

Black Economic Empowerment was intended to place Africans alongside whites at the head of South African business. Most big white-controlled companies went along with BEE, facing tw...


Squaring the circle

Would-be president Jacob Zuma has to please his left-wing backers but lacks the money to pay for the promises

Mid-October was not a good time to visit Washington. As banks collapsed and great industrial firms were threatened with closure, Jacob Zuma, the African National Congress President...


The Left's alternative economics

Cosatu and the SACP want to abandon inflation-targeting and spend the money 'released' on job creation, poverty and income support

The Congress of South African Trade Unions and South African Communist Party are enraged by African National Congress President Jacob Zuma's statements on economic policy continuit...


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