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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

‘Muscular’ and ‘Constructive’ liberalism

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Free Market Foundation Head of Policy Martin van Staden writes recently that, “one hopes that the muscular liberals will gain the advantage in this particular

The GNU at 100

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Taking the date on which President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his latest cabinet – 30 June 2024 – 8 October marks 100 days of the Government

Don’t allow it to be just a sugar high

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On 31 August Springboks (and a few All Blacks) fans took newly cleaned PRASA trains from Park Station to Ellis Park stadium (now Emirates Airline

Where to for Venezuela?

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An economic crisis that began under Hugo Chávez has accelerated under Nicolás Maduro. From 2013 to 2021, 7 million Venezuelans (about a quarter of the

South Africa’s economic freedoms whittled away

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Of the 165 jurisdictions ranked in the Fraser Institute’s 2023 Economic Freedom of the World Report (EFW), South Africa occupies the 94th position (this report