Anthea Jeffery

As the National Treasury warned last week, South Africa’s economy could contract by 16% in 2020 and more than 7 million jobs could well be

The lockdown is costing South Africa’s already crippled economy an estimated R13bn to R20bn a day.  But, despite its heavy costs, it is unable to

South Africa’s stringent lockdown has so hurt the poor – including the hundreds of thousands now newly jobless or otherwise unable to work – that

The purpose of Black Economic Empower (BEE), said the ANC in 1994, is to remove ‘all the obstacles to the development of black entrepreneurial capacity’

The lockdown is supposed to end a week today, but there are many in the government who want it extended for far longer – and

President Cyril Ramaphosa has been widely praised for his decisive leadership in locking down the country on Thursday last week, while Covid infections were still

The Covid-19 crisis in South Africa can be used in either of two ways – to push ahead with the market-friendly reforms needed to limit

Combating the Covid-19 pandemic declared a national disaster by President Cyril Ramaphosa earlier this week critically requires, among many other things: reliable access to clean

BEE public procurement policies have long harmed the millions of unemployed and disadvantaged South Africans heavily dependent on the state for vital goods and services.

The economy is officially in recession for the second time in the past two years. It contracted by 1.4% in the fourth quarter of 2019,