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On January 24, 2025, the country was swept into a mix of emotions as the contentious Expropriation Bill of 2020 was signed into law by the President as the Expropriation Act 13 of 2024 ("the Act").With the commencement date yet to be announced, the Act is not yet in force and there has been no indication of when the President…

Mcebisi Jonas has been appointed as the country's Special Envoy to the United States of America.His appointment comes following Ebrahim Rasool's expulsion last month. In a statement on Monday, President Cyril Ramaphosa said Jonas served as one of four Presidential Investment Envoys that he appointed in 2018 to facilitate investment into South…

Britain's government on Monday raced to secure raw materials to keep the country's last steelmaking blast furnaces running, as Beijing warned the UK against politicising the takeover of Chinese-owned British Steel.Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government swooped in on Saturday to prevent the closure of British Steel's main plant in northern…

Chinese exports soared more than 12 percent last month, according to data Monday, beating expectations as businesses rushed to get ahead of swingeing tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump on his so-called "Liberation Day".Beijing and Washington have been locked in a fast-moving, high-stakes game of brinkmanship since Trump launched…

Country music and the aroma of pancakes enveloped the "Boeremark", or farmer's market, outside South Africa's capital Pretoria where thousands of Afrikaners browsed on a Saturday morning.Signs written in Afrikaans advertised traditional foods: braided "koeksister" doughnuts, cinnamon-sprinkled "melkkos" porridge, strips of "biltong" cured meat.There were stands of books in Afrikaans,…

Whenever the market drops sharply, you can expect that the investment industry will tell investors to avoid making knee-jerk decisions.This is, for the most part, good advice.There is plenty of research that shows investors tend to earn lower returns than what is available in the market over time, and that poorly timed…

General George Patton, a World War figure, would say, "knowing what killed the dead can save the living." In 2016, when Dr Maletela Tuoane told me she intended to leave Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) for a job at the World Bank, I asked her to attend a meeting on a…

Smallholder farmers in rural north KwaZulu-Natal have been given a boost to supply their crops and produce to the broader consumer market witht he help of the government and the private sector.On Friday, the Department of Agriculture launched the Jozini Smallholder Farmer Programme in Jozini in northern KZN focusing on…

"Stablecoins are brilliant, especially in Africa. They solve cross-border payment issues and remittances, which can cost up to 20% in Africa. At a company I'm the Co-Founder of, Xago, we’ve built stablecoins for 6 different currencies (USD, ZAR, Euro, AUD, Pound and NGN), sending transactions in seconds for pennies," said Sonya Kuhnel, the managing director and co-founder of Bitcoin…

Vladimir Lenin famously said, “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.” The year 2025 is proving to be such a year, not only for South Africa but for the entire world.Donald Trump’s election as President of the world’s largest economy, the United States, has…