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Customers buy handmade sweets at a street market ahead of Mawlid al-Nabi, the birthday of Prophet Mohammad, in Cairo

Search for Value

Global Ventures eyes francophone markets, South Africa with Nigeria VC overvalued

Venture-capital firm Global Ventures is exploring the possibility of investing in new markets including in francophone Africa, where opportunities ... are undervalued, partner Sacha Haider tells The Africa Report.

King Coal

Eskom outages signal long, hard winter for South Africa

A historic failure to deal with maintenance at state-owned Eskom leaves South Africa facing its longest winter. ...

Rare earths

US urges ‘race to the top’ for critical minerals at Africa Indaba mining conference

The Joe Biden administration told Africa’s leading mining executives and officials this week that they are poised to play a key role in the ... clean-energy revolution, but only if African officials clean up corruption and other problems in the sector.

an impasse

South Africa: Small business’ ability to create jobs limited by red tape, says Black Business Council

South Africa’s plan to create 11 million jobs by 2030 through empowering the small business sector via targeted procurement, better access ... to funding, and cutting red tape, remains elusive, according to Black Business Council (BBC) CEO Kganki Matabane.

South Africa top stories

IMF and World Bank hold Annual Meetings in Washington

VULNERABLE TO UNREST?

South Africa: Cost of living crisis raises risk of social friction

Streetlights illuminate the central business district in Cape Town

Red Tape Artists

South Africa: Tour operators sound the alert as bureaucracy chokes recovery

South African police enter airliner in Cape Town

BLACK SWAN EVENT

South Africa: Comair’s demise a hard lesson for country’s aviation industry

IMF and World Bank hold Annual Meetings in Washington

VULNERABLE TO UNREST?

South Africa: Cost of living crisis raises risk of social friction

Streetlights illuminate the central business district in Cape Town

Red Tape Artists

South Africa: Tour operators sound the alert as bureaucracy chokes recovery

South African police enter airliner in Cape Town

BLACK SWAN EVENT

South Africa: Comair’s demise a hard lesson for country’s aviation industry

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French East Africa

Bolloré jumps into Total’s EACOP oil pipeline as banks, insurers steer clear

Bolloré Logistics has won the contract to be the main logistics supplier for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), a project which many ... banks and insurers are refusing to support.

Personal diplomacy

State Department’s number two, Wendy Sherman, meets two presidents on African tour

Deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman met with two African presidents in three countries on her first official visit to sub-Saharan Africa ... since joining the Joe Biden administration.

Operation Corruption

South Africa: How Jacob Zuma helped destroy Eskom

The Zondo commission’s fourth report accuses South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma of having helped the Gupta brothers take control ... of Eskom, Africa's largest electricity producer, and weakening a company that is now heavily in debt.

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Keep Your Head Up

Dope Saint Jude: ‘I am not coloured, I am Black’

With the release of the EP Higher Self, the South African rapper continues to play with labels. Her self-imposed exile in London has allowed ... her to take a step back from the racial divisions that still mark her country.

Sunk Assets

Can South Africa bypass a gas transition and jump straight to renewables?

Planned investments in natural gas could be an expensive mistake for South Africa, with renewable energy offering the best future, experts say. ...

history remade

South Africa: Former president predicts end of the ANC

Former South African president Kgalema Motlanthe, one of the saner voices in the ruling African National Congress (ANC), has recently given voice ... to heresy.

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