South Africa will not increase its value-added tax (VAT) from May 1 as announced in the 2025 budget, the finance ministry ...

The latest Global Trade Outlook and Statistics report by the World Trade Organization (WTO) Secretariat provides the export, import, and GDP growth forecasts for least-developed countries in 2025 and ...

By Ben Aris in Belrin Moscow’s expanding presence in Africa has largely unfolded in silence, but the shift it represents is ...

But the transaction cost of remittances to African countries remain higher than any other region. Although costs are coming down, they are doing so slowly and it is almost certain that the 2015 United ...

On World Book Day, South Africa’s early literacy crisis takes centre stage. As the country grapples with a deep literacy ...

Welcoming over 53 high level African delegations, the conference, as China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs states, reunited “the China-Africa big family.” China’s commitment to the Sino-African ...

The immediate impact of the recent global trends has been the painful marginalization, or more aptly, re-marginalization, of ...

Setting up a unity government highlights that a positive turnaround is possible for South Africa, though it is far from ...