Nelson Mandela Bay’s two ports are under pressure this week from a double threat – looming strike action and a software problem that has already slowed down the booking system, ultimately delaying ...

No one is going to invest in places where people are desperate for jobs. Johannesburg is now so bad, with so little prospect of a recovery in the medium term that some firms must be wondering how hard ...

The authors of a recent Lancet report argue that obesity should not just be seen as a risk factor for other diseases — but in some cases, should be seen as a disease itself. The position could change ...

The easy read on Vodacom’s annual results shows a company in transition, but a deeper dive shows a mobile network operator posing as a finance company that’s quietly shifting financial risk on to ...

Crumbling infrastructure, unreliable basic services, transport and logistics bottlenecks, crime targeted at businesses – the challenges to doing business in Nelson Mandela Bay are not unique in South ...

Issuing the world’s reserve currency has long allowed the US to borrow cheaply, even with outsized deficits. But every privilege – even an ‘exorbitant’ one – comes with responsibilities. And right now ...

Running a manufacturing business with 100% of our operations in South Africa must mean that we’re either total fools or totally bent on this country and the people who call it home. We are James ...

There has been much attention on the arrival of a group of Afrikaners to the US after Donald Trump’s call to welcome them as refugees. But what about Americans who have chosen to make South Africa ...

Maverick’s time machine has allowed us to eavesdrop on a golf game between the US and South African presidents that has yet to happen. The verdict on their meeting this week? It was not a meltdown, ...

The Alliance of Sahel States-Economic Community of West African States split has sparked pragmatic cooperation based on strategic interests between neighbouring countries.

The evidence is clear. Quality early learning programmes deliver a 13% annual return on investment through improved health, education, and employment outcomes. Scaling up ECD would create 300,000 jobs ...

Tanzanian police have arrested prominent human rights activists from Kenya and Uganda who had travelled to Dar es Salaam to observe a hearing in the treason case against detained opposition leader ...