Ask a room of South Africans what it means to be middle class, and you’ll get a dozen different answers. Is it owning a car? Saving...
A win that felt like hope When Eddie* placed a R30 bet on a soccer game years ago, he wasn’t chasing luxury or thrills. He was...
A comment that hit a raw nerve Few issues cut as deeply in South Africa as unemployment. So when ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe suggested that...
This week, the world’s business elite descends on Johannesburg for the B20 summit, and South Africa is ready to tell a story. It’s a tale of...
Here’s the painful paradox of South Africa today: our nation produces enough food to feed itself and export to others, yet millions of our people go...
Here’s a economic puzzle for you: the numbers say the average South African’s take-home pay is going up, yet the collective mood around kitchen tables and...
Is South Africa’s BEE Failing the Majority? Economists and DA Say Yes South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies have long been touted as a tool...
A President Under Pressure to Deliver Standing before ANC leaders at the Birchwood Hotel in Ekurhuleni, President Cyril Ramaphosa didn’t mince his words. South Africans, he...
A province under pressure KwaZulu-Natal has weathered more than its fair share of storms, literally and figuratively. From devastating floods and the Covid-19 pandemic to rolling...
291,000 Jobs Vanish: The Human Toll of SA’s Economic “Vicious Circle” The numbers are so vast they risk becoming abstract. But for the nearly 300,000 South...