The Bank of Japan has signalled caution in future rate hikes amid economic uncertainty and market pressures, complicating its policy decisions.

Parliament is demanding an investigation into the apparent under-equipment of South Africa’s troops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In 2012, banker Paul Harris wrote to a friend in Australia who had sent him a concerned note after reading that South Africa had five more years before going over a cliff. The letter has been ...

Is it power or profit that explains the proximity of the richest American tech bros to Donald Trump and how SA business has come to assist Cyril Ramaphosa in fixing what the ANC broke?

Cape Town International Airport was thrown into chaos on Thursday, 22 January after a “damaged power cable” crippled critical operations, including the fuel depot. The resulting power outages sparked ...

The new Donald Trump administration has started its term of office with a massive burst of activity, but much of it has been confused or confusing. And some of it has been deeply concerning for pretty ...

The temptation among some in opposition to ‘go it alone’ and abandon the GNU project runs the risk of a surgent populist coalition governing the country.

That he was denied amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and spent 29 years in jail for assassinating SACP leader Chris Hani was a ‘travesty of justice’, his killer Janusz Waluś has ...

By October last year, 38 government departments and 28 SOEs had accumulated a jaw-dropping figure of R123.56-billion lost to ‘irregular expenditure’. The same fellows who couldn’t organise a budget in ...

In sub-Saharan Africa more than six million pregnant and parenting girls are out of school – and few go back after giving birth. Here’s how the barriers to girls’ schooling can be broken down to help ...

A parliamentary report has revealed that some MPs were routinely absent from committee meetings, with some members achieving only a 30% attendance rate in the first six months of the new parliamentary ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would impose retaliatory measures on Colombia including tariffs, sanctions and travel bans after the South American country turned away two U.S. military ...