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South Africa accounts for 54% of all exports to the US under Agoa — a trade law which  gives eligible African countries duty-free access to the US market for thousands of products including clothing, agricultural goods, crafts and manufactured items.

South Africa-US trade faces uncertain future as Agoa renewal stalls

Business and economic leaders warn that diplomatic tension, tariffs and shifting global alliances could shape whether the country remains part of the renewed agreement

Finance minister Enoch Godongwana.(Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Budget 3.0 – Godongwana’s last shot

Now that a VAT increase has been ruled out, the finance minister must find another way to plug a R75bn gap or risk collapsing public services and investor confidence

No patience: Many fear that the ANC government does not have the capacity to make its national health insurance plan work. Photo: Felix Dlangamandla/Daily Maverick/Gallo Images via Getty Images

The NHI and the risks of populism on the eve of a crucial election

The president is attempting to shift the election campaign focus away from the government’s failures towards a promise to deliver more, although its track record suggests it cannot

Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan. (Reuters)

NEC rejects Gordhan’s SOE presentation

The NEC allegedly suggested that President Cyril Ramaphosa explore giving the electricity minister more powers at Eskom

Pravin Gordhan
2018 – present. Photo: Bongiwe Gumede/Gallo Images/Foto24

Gordhan’s dangerous board games

The minister’s conduct was called into question during this week’s national working committee meeting, sources said

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)

Former Eskom chair Makgoba calls out ‘meddlesome’ Pravin Gordhan

The minister’s leadership style is marred by micro-management and interference, according to industry leaders

Former Eskom chief executive Andre de Ruyter. (Brenton Geach/Gallo Images)

SIU accuses De Ruyter of maladministration

Andy Mothibi tells MPs the former Eskom CEO could face legal action

Business Unity South Africa chief executive Cas Coovadia

Business lobby: Chief executives extend helping hand to SA – not the ANC

During a media briefing, business leaders said their work with government could deliver the growth needed to arrest the economic crisis

A Male nurse assists one of the injured initiates at St Barnabas Hospital in Mthatha, South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images / City Press / Leon Sadiki)

Ideology weighs down the NHI

Only the rich have unrestricted access to medical care but the state’s ability to deliver universal health is rightly questioned

Eskom chief executive Dan Marokane says coal is important for the country to drive industrialisation. (Getty Images)

It’s business vs business in fight over Eskom probe funding

Business Unity South Africa’s chief executive has accused the organisation’s president of throwing the lobby under the bus in a meeting with the president

Questioning state and corporate motives should be routine

Captains of industry may appear the benevolent saviours of a state in decline, but we ought to question their intentions

Former Eskom chief executive Andre de Ruyter. (Gallo Images / Brenton Geach)

Scopa to tell De Ruyter to submit Eskom intelligence report

The decision came after President Cyril Ramaphosa’s security adviser, Sydney Mufamadi, said the former CEO never told him the report implicated a senior ANC politician in…

The Democratic Alliance insists that crucial state-owned enterprises such as Eskom should report to related ministries. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

BLSA on Eskom investigation: ‘We don’t go out of our way to meddle”

BLSA on Eskom investigation: ‘We don’t go out of our way to meddle”

President Cyril Ramaphosa.  (Photo: David Harrison)

Ramaphosa announces new R2 trillion investment target

President announces reforms aimed at attracting investors to the country as he opens conference

President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his State of the Nation address. (Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

A BIG leap is Ramaphosa’s best step to economic growth

The government has shown that it is willing to explore introducing a basic income grant, which would mark a big step towards achieving growth

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan.

Government is reviewing Eskom board, says Gordhan

The power utility’s board and management need reinforcements to ready it for the future, the public enterprises minister said

The president’s strategy to stop the unemployment crisis from spiralling includes cutting red tape and focusing on infrastructure investment

Sona 2022: Ramaphosa says private sector can dig South Africa out of jobs and growth slump

The president’s strategy to stop the unemployment crisis from spiralling includes cutting red tape and focusing on infrastructure investment

Pillaged: Workers clean up the Shoprite supermarket at the Naledi Mall in Vosloorus, Gauteng, after looters emptied the shelves. The mall was set on fire after shops had been emptied and vandalised . (Andy Mkosi)

Destruction hits business confidence

An already low sentiment will be set back by the Covid-19 pandemic, thin reforms and this week’s violence

Unions have previously called for higher earners’ salaries, such as those of ministers, to be cut. But the assessment has shown that increases in remuneration have been the fastest for employees on the lowest salary levels and slower for top earners.

Public wage bill is impeding SA’s growth prospects — Busa

Business Unity South Africa is eager to talk to its social partners at Nedlac about how the spiralling public-sector wage bill can be tamed. And the organisation says these talks…