Siyabonga Hadebe | A Message to the ‘Hippos’: Informal Economy Is Not Africa’s Development Strategy
Something remarkably optimistic is unfolding as Africa’s informal economy is rediscovered. For decades, informal traders, street vendors, domestic workers, casual…
BRICS SUMMIT 2026 DECLARATION: Building for Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation and Sustainability
We, the Leaders of BRICS countries, met in New Delhi, India, from 12 to 13 September 2026 for the XVIII…
Andile Msindwana: I remain an African – Part 1
BEYOND DEFINITION To attempt to define what it means to be African is to confront a reality that resists simplistic categorization. …
African Development Bank and AXIAN Launch Digital Finance Programme to Support 34,000 Women-led Businesses in Africa
By Emeka Anuforo AXIAN Group and the African Development Bank have launched a major women’s financial inclusion programme to expand…
Afreximbank convenes Angola oil and gas financing forum to advance local content and indigenous participation
By Vincent Musumba African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) hosted a Local Content Development Forum in Luanda, Angola, on 9 September 2026,…
PAPSS targets accelerated adoption and transaction growth as network expands across Africa
By Papa Thiongane The Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) is preparing to accelerate adoption and transaction growth across Africa…
South Africa’s Great Governance Pretence: We Speak From Both Sides of Our Mouths
By Siyabonga Hadebe South Africans have perfected a peculiar political art: wespeak from both sides of our mouths and have cultivated…
Andile Msindwana: The seventh most criminalised state on earth – What Mark Shaw told the Madlanga Commission
On 2 September 2026, Dr Mark Shaw — Executive Director of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime, former NRF…
Publisher’s Comment: Make Reading S*xy Again: South Africa’s literacy crisis is also a parenting crisis
September 8 is International Literacy Day. Yet I suspect that many South Africans will go through the day without even…
Joy Reignited: Standard Bank Joy of Jazz returns for its 27th edition
By Saul Molobi There are music festivals, and then there are cultural institutions. After more than two decades of bringing…