ECNOMICS
The Amazing Story of the Fall and Rise of South Africa’s Government Debt Level
When the ANC first came to power, the fear among corporates, investors, and diplomats was that the party would mess up South Africa’s national finances, quite the opposite happened… at first.
7.8.2026 |
Bheki Mahlobo
Six Graphs Show How South Africans Access Healthcare
Six graphs show that healthcare access in South Africa is driven primarily by employment, income, and economic growth.
6.8.2026 |
Warwick Grey
Rand One of World’s Most Undervalued Currencies
The price of a hamburger, what that says about the South African economy, and why that's a risk to investors who’ve done well on betting against the rand.
5.8.2026 |
Staff Writer
Export Expansion is Crucial for the Long-Term Growth of SA Agriculture
Wandile Sihlobo writes on the need for South Africa to diversify its agricultural exports.
4.8.2026 |
Wandile Sihlobo
Number of Social Grants Paid Out Dwarfs Number of Income Taxpayers in SA
The number of social grants being paid out is three times as many as the number of individual income taxpayers – revealing an important check and balance on the populist instincts of the state.
4.8.2026 |
News Desk
Where Are the Babies?
South Africa’s fertility rate is on a steady downward slope, and in the Western Cape and Gauteng, it is already below replacement rate. But this may not be the problem that the same trend poses for much of the rest of the world.
4.8.2026 |
Staff Writer
Just How Dangerous Is a South African Farm? We Ran the Numbers
South African farming households are attacked at roughly twice the rate of households in the general population and farmers are nearly seven times more likely to be killed in the attack than the national average.
3.8.2026 |
News Desk
SA May Be Looking East but Its Visitors Come from the West
South Africa’s tourism numbers tell a very different story from its government’s diplomatic priorities.
31.7.2026 |
Economics Desk
When Policy Meets Reality: Illegal Firearms and the Failure of Gun Control
The state’s proposed solution to the scourge of illegal firearms is to disarm law-abiding citizens by removing self-defence as a lawful reason for firearm ownership.
30.7.2026 |
Staff Writer
For a Long Time, the ANC did Deliver
The initial period of democracy in South Africa saw the ANC drive spectacular increases in employment, services, and incomes, but weak growth after 2008 has stalled much of that progress.
29.7.2026 |
News Desk
