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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa gestures as he delivers the opening address during the 3rd South Africa Investment Conference in Sandton

STEPPING UP

South Africa: Big task lies ahead to reform the economy – presidential adviser Makhaya

A mammoth task lies ahead for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration to reform South Africa’s economy. Progress has been made, but “one ... shouldn’t overestimate where we are. We’ve been taking steps in the right direction. We still need to do a lot more,” says economist and businesswoman Trudi Makhaya.

Bulking Up

Standard Bank to lift insurance, asset management scale with Liberty buyout

Standard Bank, Africa’s largest bank by assets, has offered to buy out the remaining shares in Liberty Holdings to achieve greater scale in ... insurance and asset management.

South Africa Fraud case

Maputo's most wanted

Why are Mozambique and the US fighting over Manuel Chang?

At the centre of Mozambique’s $2bn tuna bond scandal, is former finance minister Manuel Chang. The scandal, US prosecutors say, involved a ... criminal network of Mozambican officials conspiring with partners in foreign banks and shipbuilding companies to set up fraudulent projects.

You’re fired!

Football: Heads have been rolling ever since South Africa’s Patrice Motsepe arrived at the CAF

During the night of 24 to 25 May, some 15 Confederation of African Football (CAF) employees were informed by email that they had been let go. ... The recipients all received the same message, which was composed of a few very explicit, cryptic sentences. “Your mission at CAF is over. Don't come to headquarters anymore. You will receive your salary for the month of June.”

South Africa top stories

two wrongs don't make a right

South Africa: Hundreds of foreign-trained doctors shut out as Covid rages

Steinhoff Chief Executive Officer Louis du Preez addresses a presentation to investors in Cape Town

fair deal?

South Africa: Inside Steinhoff’s legal defence against fresh claims

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks to the media while visiting a shopping centre which was damaged after several days of looting following the imprisonment of former South Africa President Jacob Zuma in Durban

mutinous ministers

Can Ramaphosa seize this crisis to change South Africa?

two wrongs don't make a right

South Africa: Hundreds of foreign-trained doctors shut out as Covid rages

Steinhoff Chief Executive Officer Louis du Preez addresses a presentation to investors in Cape Town

fair deal?

South Africa: Inside Steinhoff’s legal defence against fresh claims

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks to the media while visiting a shopping centre which was damaged after several days of looting following the imprisonment of former South Africa President Jacob Zuma in Durban

mutinous ministers

Can Ramaphosa seize this crisis to change South Africa?

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Buying British

South Africa: Equites REIT to lift UK property exposure after raising R1bn

Equites Property Fund plans to increase its holdings in the UK after raising R1bn ($70m) from South African investors, CEO Andrea Taverna-Turisan ... tells The Africa Report.

violence continues

Eswatini: South Africa’s Thabo Mbeki called in to intervene

Former South African president Thabo Mbeki has been approached to help facilitate talks between government and civil society in Eswatini, following ... four days of violent protests in the absolute monarchy. It is understood that Eswatini's King Mswati III and prime minister Themba Masuku approached the former statesman; but Mbeki told them he would only agree if the process is led by the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a source close to the process said.

SADC troops in Mozambique

Mozambique: Can international military support make up for the army’s failures?

The government of Rwanda and the heads of state of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have decided to intervene militarily in ... Mozambique's security crisis. But will this external support be enough to turn the tide?

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Under New Management

AngloGold Ashanti’s new CEO needs to invest in Colombia, analysts say

AngloGold Ashanti’s new CEO Alberto Calderon will need to take risks in his native Colombia to revive the fortunes of the mining multinational ... which has lacked permanent leadership for a year, analysts say.

proof in the pudding

South Africa: Zuma’s imprisonment marks important milestone for country’s constitutional democracy

South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma went to jail in his state-funded VIP convoy just before midnight on Wednesday 7 July. His convoy sped ... out of the gate of his rural homestead in Nkandla without as much as a greeting to his inebriated son, Edward, who had been standing guard outside with a wooden stick in his hand, flanked by journalists and a small group of Zuma's supporters.

Treasure hunt

Libya: On the hunt for Gaddafi’s lost treasure

Tunisia’s Erik Goaied is a mysterious businessman who is well known in Tripoli and Pretoria. This eclectic adventurer is also the main person ... trying to find the treasure that Libya’s Muammar el Gaddafi is said to have hid in South Africa.

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