Dangor said the US argument that if one G20 member was absent from the leaders summit, then there could be no consensus, had been voted down

Director general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said South Africa’s G20 presidency highlighted the importance of trade within WTO rules and reforming the system through local mineral…

Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said countries understood ‘that there’s a bilateral issue between South Africa and the US, but that must not, in any shape or form,…

In an apparent reference to US President Donald Trump’s absence, Ramaphosa warned against allowing ‘anything to diminish the value, the stature or the impact of the first African…

President Cyril Ramaphosa has cast the annual forum as a test of whether multilateral cooperation still matters

In his weekly newsletter, the president said the G20 must urgently address the fiscal conditions that have left low- and middle-income countries unable to build resilience or…

President Cyril Ramaphosa said the uncertainty of the new trading regime had already harmed the country’s economy

The panel, chaired by Nobel prize-winner economist Joseph Stiglitz, will produce recommendations to help bridge the rich-poor divide

Populist parties have made considerable gains in the wake of the government’s insecurity-inducing economic policies

South Africa risks falling behind as much of the rest of the world embraces industrialisation to grow and protect economies

The American presidential hopeful’s world policies make him a bull in a china shop

This year will finally see interest rates fall. But whatever relief the Reserve Bank administers, it will have come too late for some

Policymakers at home and abroad failed to see the 2008 crisis as an opportunity to break from the past and imagine the world anew

Tighter financial conditions will hurt an economy already brought to its knees by the government

When macroeconomic policy has so clearly failed workers, and us all, why is a complete overhaul still out of the question?

Student debt does not only affect the student and the university but has far-reaching consequences for all of us and the economy

Unlike other countries on the continent, South Africa ignores the high cost of cheap chicken imports

A better future is possible – but only if the scourge of inequality is banished

Joseph Stiglitz has called on South Africa to take a bold new approach to policy.

Economic growth has come back to Africa in the new century, making the 2000s the region’s fastest-growing decade to date, writes Ha-Joon Chang.