Inside South Africa’s billion-rand building hijack economy being linked to DJ Warras's death

DJ Warras's death has shed light on Johannesburg's hidden-in-plain-sight crisis of building hijacking, where criminal ...

Indian-origin man among 4 killed in temple collapse in South Africa

A four-storey Hindu temple under construction collapsed in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province, killing four people, ...

South Africa and Pakistan: countries brought to their knees by elite capture and economic paralysis

There is common concern about deteriorating statecraft and the weakening of institutions in countries across Africa.
Opinion

The Silent Crisis: Government inaction on PetroSA's collapse threatens a generation

PetroSA's crisis is a stark reminder of the dangers of government inaction. As state-owned entities crumble, the future of an entire generation hangs in the balance. What must be done to avert this ...
The Economist

Why South Africa should scrap Black Economic Empowerment

Some months after Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February 1990, he told businesses that South Africa must “deracialise the exercise of economic power”. Such words unnerved the ...