South Africa has lost a key line of defence against corruption. What now?
Apr 02, 2017 01:54 am UTC| Insights & Views
South Africas currency and bond markets plunged after a dramatic late night announcement that South Africas President Jacob Zuma had fired the Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas as part of a major...
Zuma's cabinet reshuffle opens the door for nuclear deal in South Africa
Apr 02, 2017 00:55 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
South Africa has just witnessed a game changing cabinet reshuffle with the firing of five ministers and several deputy ministers. This included the Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and his second-in-charge Mcebisi...
Zille, tweeting and inanity: more reasons for white South Africans to shut up
Mar 30, 2017 04:16 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Its remarkable how much of a shitstorm Twitter creates when in the hands of politicians with serious costs for the rest of us. Helen Zille, premier of the Western Cape province and former leader of the opposition...
Mar 01, 2017 07:46 am UTC| Research & Analysis
Moodys Investors Service expects Indian economic growth to continue to pick up as liquidity conditions normalize, supporting expectations that the economic disruption caused by demonetization will be short term in...
Steering the budget between excess patronage and prudence
Feb 25, 2017 12:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
After investigating the massacre (as termed by both the opposition Democratic Alliance and African National Congress Youth League) of more than 100 mental health patients under the guise of cutting costs, South Africas...
South Africa's 2017 budget: tough economic times require tough decisions
Feb 06, 2017 18:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
South Africas 2017/18 budget will have to be bold to pull the country out of the prevailing economic crisis. Economic growth has stalled and the threat of a credit rating downgrade still looms large. The Conversation...
Why Brazil is winning its fight against corruption
Feb 03, 2017 04:41 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Last month, the respected Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Teori Zavascki died in a plane crash. He was overseeing the largest corruption investigation in the countrys history. Even if his recently selected successor,...
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