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International Relations and Cooperations Minister Naledi Pandor. (Photo by Michel Porro/Getty Images)

Pandor says SA values US relationship and hopes bill to review relationship doesn’t pass

Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said it would be unfortunate for SA/US relations if the bill comes to pass

Vusimuzi Madonsela, South African Ambassador to the Netherlands, and then Justice Minister Ronald Lamola, prepare to attend a hearing on January 11 and 12 2024 at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). (Photo by Michel Porro/Getty Images)

BREAKING: US congress receives bill to review SA relations following ‘politically motivated’ ICJ case

The bipartisan bill accuses the ANC, President Cyril Ramaphosa and Naledi Pandor of anti-semitic statements

Katherine Tai, US trade representative, Cyril Ramaphosa, and Ebrahim Patel, arrive at the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) forum in Johannesburg on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023.
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US says reciprocal access to duty free still on the cards

Joy Basu said the US wants women owned business to benefit more from Agoa

AU commissioner Albert Muchanga said reciprocal US access to duty-free African markets would not benefit the continent. (Photo by Arif Hudaverdi Yaman/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Agoa: Africa calling for another 10 years

AU commissioner Albert Muchanga said reciprocal US access to duty-free African markets would not benefit the continent

The future of our healthcare system is in our hands; we approach it with responsibility, collaboration and a deep commitment to the well-being of all people.  (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The Fiscal Cliff | SA health check: Failure diagnosed

In this monthly series, the M&G investigates how South Africa’s fiscal policy has been shaped. The second instalment considers the health budget and why, despite growing to R254…

South Africa’s treasury is guilty of bad budgeting, and its budgets are criminally incongruous with the vision, policy objectives and goals of the 2012 National Development Plan. (David Harrison/M&G)

The Fiscal Cliff | Treasury is working against the National Development Plan

The treasury continues to underfund health and education

Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Ebrahim Patel wants better envoys

South Africa to oppose reciprocal duty-free access for US companies during the Agoa conference in November

South Africa is widely recognised as the most unequal society in the world, with a startling 71% of the country’s wealth concentrated in the hands of a mere 10% elite

Austerity, the NDP’s grim reaper

Ten years after its adoption, the government has failed to achieve the targets set out in the National Development Plan. Looming spending cuts will render the NDP even more futile

(Graphic:John McCann/M&G)

The fiscus will shade the elections

South Africa’s chickens have finally come to roost, leading the finance minister down a path that may well compromise the ANC

Trevor Manuel
1996 – 2009. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)

Is Ramaphosa and Manuel’s feted economic plan delayed or dead?

With most of the NDP targets way off the mark, our fiscal path defers the NDP goals by another decade, if we are lucky, while an incapable state will spell its death

South Africa’s economy expanded by a marginal 0.1% in the first quarter of 2025

Sovereign wealth fund needs a hero

The fund, announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa in 2020, may have helped protect the fiscus from a long-term debt crisis

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan. (Gulshan Khan/AFP)

The Fiscal Cliff | State-owned entities: A war zone between political and economic elites

The corporatisation of SOEs has disempowered the South African public and benefited corporate power and private finance

Eskom is awaiting government approval to get the 100 megawatts of power offered by the Mozambique energy ministry in July.

The Fiscal Cliff | Eskom: The fiscal monster the treasury can’t vanquish

Among state-owned entities, the beleaguered power utility is far and away the biggest risk to the public purse