South Africa will continue its diplomatic efforts towards a more balanced and mutually beneficial trade relationship with the US. President Ramaphosa has issued instructions to engage with the US on ...

The recently announced US trade measures are the actions of a particular politician with a unique vision about the US’s global role. He is the duly elected President of the United States of America, ...

An Executive Order issued by US President Donald Trump on 31 July brought a measure of certainty to the fast-paced and ...

President Trump’s trade measures have upended the multilateral trading system. Individual countries and regional trade arrangements such as the European Union and Africa’s Regional Economic ...

The fact that the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors was able to release a joint statement after the ...

The global trade order has been plunged into crisis with the introduction by the US, of sweeping tariffs since President Trump’s inauguration on 20 January 2025, with the effective date of ...

South Africa’s state-owned electricity company, Eskom, is trying to protect its monopoly in the face of the envisaged transition to a liberalised energy market. The utility has gone to the Gauteng ...

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