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CYRIL’S TSARS

South Africa: Who’s who in Ramaphosa’s economic cluster?

A man of many titles – freedom fighter, union founder, chief constitutional negotiator, farmer and businessman-turned-politician – President ... Cyril Ramaphosa presides over sub-Saharan Africa’s second-largest economy. Amid rising populism, who does he trust to safeguard the economy?

Stuck on Default

Standard Chartered Mozambique gas emissions to outstrip those of UK

UK banking group Standard Chartered in 2021 funded fossil fuel expansion projects that will emit five times the entire UK’s annual carbon emissions ... across the project lifetimes, led by LNG development in Mozambique, a new report claims.

South African Rands

Terms of Trade

Credit Suisse: South African reforms can strengthen rand in long term

South Africa has a rare chance to use investment inflows and improved terms of trade as a basis for reform which can produce a stronger rand ... in the long term, Credit Suisse director Alexey Pogorelov tells The Africa Report.

A shopper walks past an MTN shop at mall in Johannesburg

Down with Downtime

South Africa: MTN leads telecoms consumer sentiment, Eskom constrains the industry

MTN has the best levels of consumer sentiment among South Africa’s telecoms companies but Eskom's load shedding is harming perceptions of the ... industry, according to the South African Telecommunications Sentiment Index from Deloitte and DataEQ.

South Africa top stories

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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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ROLLING REFORM

South Africa: African Rail Industry Association welcomes Transnet rail sale

Transnet has announced that it will sell slots of its rail network to third parties in an effort to liberalise the the rail sector, but the African ... Rail Industry Association (ARIA) argues that current terms placed on the table by the state owned company may limit investor appetite.

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tweeter-in-chief

Elon Musk: the African who wants to unleash Twitter

African-born billionaire Elon Musk has just bought Twitter, the social network, for $44bn. The information is a source of pride as well as ... concern.

What to do

Africa in April 2022: Kenya’s campaigns, Zuma’s and Kanu’s trials, and a new airline takes off

The Africa Report's guide to the month of April 2022 on the continent. ...

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Just Transition?

South Africa: Eskom miners need new jobs for energy transition to succeed

Finding a future for South Africa’s coal miners will be essential to achieving energy transition, Saliem Fakir, executive director of the Africa ... Climate Foundation (ACF), tells The Africa Report.

Power lines supplying electricity by stated owned Eskom run through sugar cane fields on a Tongaat Hulett farm in Shongweni

bitter sweet

South Africa: Lobby seeks to end sugar tax, save weakened industry

While South Africa’s government has delayed plans to hike the country’s controversial sugar tax to April 2023, The South African Canegrowers ... Association (SA Canegrowers), a lobby representing 22,000 farmers, continues to argue for a total withdrawal of the tax to support a sector in decline.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on a state visit to Ivory Coast

renewal bug

Ramaphosa’s ‘step aside’ rule for corrupt ANC leaders ‘not working’ says key ally

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa's key lieutenant in the African National Congress (ANC) has admitted that the party's rule to force ... criminally-charged leaders to step aside has not worked.

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