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Open Society Foundations president, Binaifer Nowrojee, who was in South Africa this month. (X/@NowrojeeOSF)

Open Society Foundations adapts to a new world

The George Soros-founded private funder says it does not have the capacity to fill the void left by USAid cuts

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Vice President of communications and public policy Elliot Schrage. (Reuters/James Lawler Duggan)

Departing Facebook comms chief takes blame for PR firm controversy

The announcement by Elliot Schrage came after Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg pledged a "thorough" review of its use of a conservative consulting firm

He says it himself: Even though Trump is not on the ballot, he is at the heart of the 2018 vote. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

US midterms: Key factors of the 2018 elections

The US midterm election has been a tug of war over key issues, but none has had a more dramatic impact on voters than Donald Trump

Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Pool via Reuters)

Kavanaugh poised for confirmation to US Supreme Court

If he wins confirmation, Kavanaugh will seal a conservative majority on the nine-seat high court for years to come

Russia bans George Soros foundations to ‘squeeze life out of civil society’

Russia has branded foundations run by the financier a threat to its constitutional order and banned them from disbursing grants to Russian partners.

Hawks spokesperson Hangwani Mulaudzi said they had received tips of alleged corruption within the department.

Vodacom sells Tanzania phone towers to Soros-backed company

In a bid to increase earnings, Vodacom has sold over a thousand phone towers to the George-Soros-backed Helios Towers Tanzania.

Soros: Worst of economic crisis behind us

The global economy has already passed the worst of the economic crisis and should soon pull out of its slump, George Soros said on Monday.

It’s the Fred and Fan show

Larry Elliott takes a look at the bail-out which is a nationalisation designed to avert the worst market collapse since the 1930s.

Greenspan says investors concerned about SA

Investors have concerns about South Africa, former Federal Reserve chairperson Alan Greenspan told a conference in Sandton on Tuesday.

Super-rich face backlash as credit crunch hits home in US

The ”American dream” of unashamed wealth and the opportunity for all to acquire it has reached a crisis point before: in the Depression, the oil shock, in the ”greed is good”…

How to make the system work

Billionaire philanthropist George Soros made his fortune on the markets and is giving a lot of it to Africa. Last week he hosted an Africa Forum in Dakar on whether the continent…

Soros: China, India are Africa’s ‘new colonialists’

Hungry for oil and minerals, India and China have become Africa’s new colonialists, exploiting the world’s poorest continent in the same way as its old European masters,…