South Africa

African Development Bank headquarters in Abidjan. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

'immense opportunity'

How East Africa’s investment drive trickles down on the rest of continent

The whole continent is bound to benefit from the East African region’s impressive run.

South Africa’s Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana speaks during his 2023 budget speech in Cape Town, South Africa. (Reuters/Shelley Christians)

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Premium badgeSouth Africa: Tempers boil as welfare state eyes $7bn bill Political tensions are mounting in South Africa as the overburdened state welfare system becomes too expensive to maintain.
© SanlamAllianz Africa CEO Heinie Werth. Photo supplied

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Premium badgeCEO Heinie Werth: Sanlam-Allianz joint venture a long-term play in Africa SanlamAllianz Africa is a newly launched holding company domiciled in South Africa with a commitment to the whole continent, according to the CEO.
FILE PHOTO: A shopper walks to a Woolworths store in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 2, 2022. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

three-horse race

Premium badgeSouth Africa: Woolworths aims to leapfrog Shoprite, Pick n Pay to regain retail dominance Woolworths is aiming to beat off competition from Shoprite and Pick n Pay, which have both tightened their control on the retail sector.

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South Africa’s Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana speaks during his 2023 budget speech in Cape Town, South Africa. (Reuters/Shelley Christians)

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Premium badgeSouth Africa: Tempers boil as welfare state eyes $7bn bill Political tensions are mounting in South Africa as the overburdened state welfare system becomes too expensive to maintain.
© SanlamAllianz Africa CEO Heinie Werth. Photo supplied

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Premium badgeCEO Heinie Werth: Sanlam-Allianz joint venture a long-term play in Africa SanlamAllianz Africa is a newly launched holding company domiciled in South Africa with a commitment to the whole continent, according to the CEO.
FILE PHOTO: A shopper walks to a Woolworths store in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 2, 2022. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

three-horse race

Premium badgeSouth Africa: Woolworths aims to leapfrog Shoprite, Pick n Pay to regain retail dominance Woolworths is aiming to beat off competition from Shoprite and Pick n Pay, which have both tightened their control on the retail sector.

South Africa top stories

South Africa’s Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana speaks during his 2023 budget speech in Cape Town, South Africa. (Reuters/Shelley Christians)

No money

Premium badgeSouth Africa: Tempers boil as welfare state eyes $7bn bill Political tensions are mounting in South Africa as the overburdened state welfare system becomes too expensive to maintain.
© SanlamAllianz Africa CEO Heinie Werth. Photo supplied

VALUE ADD

Premium badgeCEO Heinie Werth: Sanlam-Allianz joint venture a long-term play in Africa SanlamAllianz Africa is a newly launched holding company domiciled in South Africa with a commitment to the whole continent, according to the CEO.
FILE PHOTO: A shopper walks to a Woolworths store in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 2, 2022. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

three-horse race

Premium badgeSouth Africa: Woolworths aims to leapfrog Shoprite, Pick n Pay to regain retail dominance Woolworths is aiming to beat off competition from Shoprite and Pick n Pay, which have both tightened their control on the retail sector.

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© Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa speaks to the media at State House in Harare, 27 August 2023. (Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo)

his way

Premium badgeA look into Zimbabwe President Mnangagwa’s second term Emmerson Mnangagwa’s family cabinet selection and widespread criticism of Zimbabwe’s sham election indicate the country’s continued diplomatic isolati...
The coffin of Mangosuthu Buthelezi, a veteran politician and Zulu prince, arrives at his state funeral in Ulundi, South Africa, 16 September, 2023. (Reuters/Rogan Ward)

family feud

Premium badgeSouth Africa: Zulu prince’s death deepens monarchical feud Zulu prince Buthelezi’s bitter fight with the new King, it seems, still echoes from the grave.
South African Police Service (SAPS) officers stands at the scene of a burned apartment block in Johannesburg on September 1, 2023, the day after the fire killed 77.

political inferno

Premium badgeSouth Africa: Johannesburg’s ‘hijacked’ building fire exposes corruption and housing chaos Crime syndicates are accused of colluding with officials in Johannesburg’s Marshalltown tragedy, in which 77 people died.
© An irrigation system at a farm in Eikenhof, south of Johannesburg, South Africa. (Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)

water wars

Premium badgeSouth Africa: Race-based quotas for water licences worry farmers The ruling ANC has drafted a water licence bill that is criticised by the opposition DA party as being race-based and threatens agriculture.
eacopmap1 © Satellite image provided by by the Earth Insight research group in the US shows EACOP environmental impacts in Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park.

Ripple Effect

Premium badgeNew satellite images show potential EACOP impact may be worse than feared Satellite images chart EACOP oil pipeline impacts in Uganda, Tanzania and the DRC.
Ralph Mupita in London in May 2019. © Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

‘enormous project’

Premium badgeMTN’s Ralph Mupita, the CEO who aims high despite challenges For the second half of his term, the CEO who wants to turn the pan-Africa telecommunications giant into a technological platform is embarking on a tra...