Op-Ed

One year ago this week, the United States government stood in the Rose Garden and announced a new era of global trade, one that would, within months, dismantle the foundational…

On April 2, 2025, the United States rewrote the rules of global trade with a single Rose Garden announcement. One year on, the scorecard is in, and it tells a…

Renewed public attention this week on South Africa’s relationship with Iran—amplified by widely circulated reports and commentary—has brought Pretoria’s foreign policy stance back into sharp global focus. At the centre…

A New Industrial Alliance Between Washington and Seoul On 12 March 2026, South Korea’s National Assembly passed a bipartisan bill enabling a $350 billion investment commitment in strategic industries in…

The Event: South Africa Sets a R2 Trillion Investment Target In recent official remarks and policy briefings tied to the upcoming Sixth South Africa Investment Conference scheduled for 31 March…

On 25 February 2026, finance ministers and central bank governors meeting under South Africa’s G20 presidency in Cape Town formally endorsed a revised operational framework to accelerate sovereign debt restructurings…

On 17 February 2026, the European Commission formally approved a €3.2 billion financing facility under its Critical Raw Materials (CRM) framework, aimed at accelerating strategic mining and processing projects in…

For a long time, many of us assumed the economy would eventually “make sense again.” That if we stayed patient, worked hard, and waited for stability to return, the path…

In a late-2025 decision that is now shaping market expectations for 2026, OPEC+ formally extended its coordinated oil supply cuts, signaling a deliberate choice to prioritize price stability over volume…

The South African Reserve Bank’s decision this week to keep the repo rate unchanged at 8.25% marks more than a routine pause in its tightening cycle. It reflects a deliberate recalibration of South…