Creator
Kevin Davie is M&G's business editor. A journalist for more than 30 years, he has worked in senior positions at most major titles in the country. Davie is a Nieman Fellow (1995-1996) and cyberspace innovator, having co-founded SA's first online-only news portal, Woza, and the first online stockbroking operation. He is a lecturer at Wits Journalism. In his spare time he can be found riding a bicycle, usually somewhere remote.
Shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, will this rock art collection be taken out of storage for South Africans to see? This is the final…
A captivating and absorbing three part journey into the southern African rock art images, their journey from caves, to museums all over the world, their role in shaping avante…
Part one of a three-part story about Southern African rock art’s journey from caves to museums all over the world, its role in shaping avant garde and its return to Africa
Everyone has different solutions, but they all agree that time is running out — and Eskom is the priority
The union federation says urgent, bold action is needed to keep the state-owned utility (and South Africa) going
‘The Laundromat’ is a film about corporates and the superrich using tax havens, something the streaming service itself allegedly excels at
South African giants in the firing line as investor decides to drop carbon-heavy companies
Cyril Ramaphosa wants to do the right thing – bring independent power producers on to the grid. He must act despite opposition from top ANC members
The electricity crisis has spurred the government on to use independent power producers to boost the grid
The union federation offers unprecedented concessions on job protections
“Overall it seems not only is Ramaphoria dead [it was never alive] but the long arc of reform potential is being lost in the discourse."
Government has taken the business rescue route in a bid to halt an ‘uncontrolled implosion’ of the airline
Female bosses at the IMF, ECB and EU are putting climate at the heart of policymaking
Gwede Mantashe needs to shift from costly, climate crisis-inducing fossil fuels to renewables
The record of South Africa’s banks and its top 10 carbon emitters in disclosing steps to mitigate climate-related risks is poor
The former head of stressed Nampak has been brought in to set right the floundering utility
The latest report card on how we are doing as a country to reduce emissions is in — and we’re not doing well
But analysts say that cost-plus mines would mean ‘a subsidy for private investors’
South Africa’s credit rating outlook is revised from stable to negative, but not downgraded to junk status at this stage
SA’s economic prospects have declined rapidly since Feburary, with Eskom being one of the biggest drains. It’s time for some difficult choices
