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South Africa taps business to create office to end rail monopoly 
By: Bloomberg 8th April 2024 South Africa has asked companies to help it set up an office to facilitate the entry of private operators onto the continent’s biggest rail network... →
SA: Cyril Ramaphosa: Address by South Africa's President, at the Newlyn PX Terminal Launch, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal (04/04/24)
5th April 2024 The completion and launch of the Newlyn Park Bayhead Rail Terminal project at the Port of Durban is not only a much-needed boost to South Africa’s... →
Policy uncertainty edging further into negative territory ahead of elections, report shows 
By: Darren Parker 3rd April 2024 The North-West University Business School Policy Uncertainty Index veered further into negative territory in the first quarter, at 65.8 index... →
BLSA calls for immediate reworking of IRP, describing assumptions as ‘spurious’
By: Terence Creamer 2nd April 2024 Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA), whose members include the largest domestic and foreign companies operating in South Africa, has added its... →
Premier Lesufi, Minister Chikunga succumb to DA pressure to gazette switching off e-toll gantries
28th March 2024 The national and provincial governments have finally succumbed to the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) pressure to initiate the process of gazetting for... →
South Africa’s electricity crisis: what political parties say in their election manifestos about solving it
28th March 2024 South Africa is in the middle of a deep electricity crisis. In 2023 the public, many of whom are voters, experienced the worst loadshedding to... →
Urbanisation and arms trafficking: a deadly mix in Bamako and Lagos
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 27th March 2024 Growing populations, established criminal networks and thriving gangs make these cities the perfect market for smugglers. Urban growth in Africa... →
DA: John Steenhuisen: Address by DA leader, during an address to the Cape Town Press Club (26/03/2024)
27th March 2024 Our country’s politics have gone through a great deal of change since the last time we got together. →
