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The fly in the MTBPS ointment

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South Africa’s economy is not growing fast enough. This is the key take-away from the 2025 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) delivered last Wednesday

The ongoing tariff dance

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Tariff threats have proved a favourite tool of US President Donald Trump as his administration continues to rework US trading relationships and the global trade

SA dithers while global trade shifts

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Amidst the US-generated trade turmoil, Chinese president Xi Jinping announced last week that “zero-tariff treatment for 100% tariff lines” would be accorded to all 53

SA’s once-in-a-century opportunity

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For a country as reliant on trade and investment from the US and European countries as South Africa, the government’s focus on ideology and past

SA’s Goldilocks moment?

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While stating the global economy is at a “critical juncture,” in its latest World Economic Outlook the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slashed its global

A view from Washington, DC

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While walking from one briefing to the next in Washington, DC, last week, I received a notification from South Africa’s favourite app. EskomSePush told me

AGOA, going, gone

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In a 13 February executive order (EO), ‘Reciprocal Trade and Tariffs’,US president Donald Trump puts forth a wide-ranging review and proposed change to how the

South Africa’s trade growth opportunity

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With load-shedding seemingly a thing of the very recent past (load-limiting remains in place, and load-shedding could return when Eskom takes more of the coal

The Transnet imperative

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Of all the vertically and horizontally integrated freight and ports companies that have existed in the world, Transnet is the last remaining of its kind.

SA not (yet) playing its G20 hand well

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When South Africa assumes the presidency of the G20 on 1 December, it gains a position that will afford the country, and the Government of