3+ hour, 13+ min ago  (343+ words) Government departments and public agencies used a GCIS webinar to connect young South Africans with employment opportunities, entrepreneurship support, funding programmes and digital job platforms to tackle youth unemployment Every year, around one million young South Africans leave school, college…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago  (1230+ words) Where unemployment hits hardest, people cobble together ways to survive South Africa's economy has hardly grown in more than a decade and one in three people are unemployed. It begs the question: How are citizens surviving? The true unemployment rate…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (898+ words) Migration remains one of the most debated issues in South Africa today. While these concerns are real, they can sometimes obscure a more fundamental question: Why are some entrepreneurial ecosystems succeeding while others struggle? This question matters because migration and…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (12+ words) The cost of living does not reward breaks The Mail & Guardian...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1024+ words) The South African Reserve Bank has raised the interest rate for the first time since 2023, warning that escalating tension in the Middle East, rising oil prices and climate-related food risks could trigger a fresh wave of inflation. Reserve Bank governor…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (672+ words) As we reach the midway point of Africa Month, it is perhaps appropriate to reflect on the direction of investment in infrastructure, specifically in South Africa. Why infrastructure, you may ask? Because, as President Cyril Ramaphosa noted at the recent…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1202+ words) South Africa's worsening unemployment crisis is raising renewed questions about whether the country's economic stabilisation is translating into meaningful improvement for ordinary households, with labour market data pointing to a recovery that remains weak, uneven and disconnected from large-scale job…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1010+ words) Walking through the inaugural South Africa Innovation Week (SAIW) at Nasrec last week, I saw the country's creative potential on full display." Yet for all this energy, South Africa still ranks just 61st out of 139 economies in the Global Innovation Index…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (264+ words) The Gulf is not simply an energy hub; it is one of the central chemical and industrial engines of the global economy that is now seizing." While oil shocks move markets in hours, agricultural shocks move harvests in seasons. By…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1419+ words) In an interview with the Mail & Guardian, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana explains why stabilising South Africa's debt marks a turning point for the fiscus and why rail reform, infrastructure delivery and fiscal discipline will determine whether the shift can be…...