Cape Town to host strategic Oceans Economy Conference as global maritime tensions recast the importance of sea power and trade security

Cape Town to host strategic Oceans Economy Conference as global maritime...

Cape Town, South Africa – At a time when escalating geopolitical tensions, disrupted shipping lanes and rising instability across key maritime corridors are reshaping global...
Paul Smith

Join Leaders Shaping SA’s inclusive economy – CADE Summit 2026

Summit brings together leaders to transform marginalised business models into drivers of employment and wealth creation Across South Africa, thousands of cooperatives, community property associations...
Freedom, Memory and the Curious Outrage of Comfortable Men

Freedom, Memory and the Curious Outrage of Comfortable Men

Every year on Freedom Day, we celebrate the arrival of political freedom in 1994. But freedom, like memory, is selective. For some, it marks a...
The domestic effects of South Africa’s diplomacy under Ramaphosa

The Domestic Implications of South Africa’s Diplomacy: Fuel Prices, Jobs, and...

South Africa’s foreign policy under the direction of President Ramaphosa is presented as a sophisticated balancing act on the world stage: a series of...
Access to regulated credit is essential to create an enabling environment for South Africa

Access to regulated credit is essential to create an enabling environment...

The Credit Association of South Africa (CASA) has welcomed the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition’s (DTIC) 2026/27 Annual Performance Plan (APP), which places...
The Little-Known Role of Veterinarians in Supporting South Africa’s Economy

The Little-Known Role of Veterinarians in Supporting South Africa’s Economy

This World Veterinary Day on 25 April, global animal health company - Zoetis - celebrates some of the crucial ways that veterinarians support the...
How to manage and move on after retrenchment: Understanding your rights and future options

How to manage and move on after retrenchment: Understanding your rights...

In the shadow of an unsteady economy, retrenchments and layoffs have sadly become an increasingly regular occurrence for South African workers. With thousands having...
Your Work, Your Reward: Helping Motor Industry Employees Access the Benefits They Deserve

Your Work, Your Reward: Helping Motor Industry Employees Access the Benefits...

Billions of rand in employee benefits across South Africa remain unclaimed, often by workers who simply do not know the money is theirs. According to...
Property Trends: What to expect from South Africa’s property market

Property Trends: What to expect from South Africa’s property market

Johannesburg, South Africa – 13 March 2026 - South Africa’s property market is entering what many analysts are calling a sustainable expansion phase, following a...
South Africa built two years of fiscal credibility. The oil shock is its first real test.

South Africa built two years of fiscal credibility. The oil shock...

Eighteen years ago, South Africa’s public debt sat at 23.6% of GDP, ballooning to 78.9% at its peak. Debt-service costs consumed roughly 21 cents of every...
Rising financial stress is behind the sharp increase in illegal lending in South Africa

Rising financial stress is behind the sharp increase in illegal lending...

The Credit Association of South Africa (CASA) has signalled deep concern about the growing rise in illegal lending, warning that increasing financial pressure on...
Harry Scherzer, CEO of Future Forex

South Africans may soon be able to send twice as much...

The amount South Africans can send offshore without SARS clearance hasn’t budged since 2011. That’s about to change. On 25 February, Finance Minister Enoch...