Columns

Battle for the Cape, making enemies of America, screw the poor children, the minister warns on climate saboteurs, Ramaphosa has a new policy paper to fix towns and cities, so much turns now on Motsepe, and Zille, fighting for good and South Africa, a bad budget (why bail out the airline again?), the market is pricing in a lot of good news.

Economics & Policy

South Africa has fallen far behind Canada and Australia in mining exploration. Adopting Canadian-style tax incentives could revive investment and unlock its mineral wealth.

Economics & Policy

Bheki Mahlobo says that the rand’s recent weakness against the US dollar reflects changing expectations for American economic growth and interest rates, rather than a response to South Africa’s risky domestic political environment.

Politics

Despite Johannesburg's collapse under ANC-led governments, the DA is polling at roughly the same level it reached a decade ago in the city. Several factors may explain why the party has struggled to break through, but the most important may be that voters have lost faith in the ANC without yet gaining faith in its principal alternative.

Columns

Nicholas Woode-Smith argues that government policies helped fuel South Africa’s illicit tobacco crisis, and enforcement alone will not fix it.