50+ min ago  (362+ words) " July 3, 2026 Forecasting involves saying that a single point in future space and time will occur. Scenario planning becomes necessary when the political environment becomes so uncertain that series of plausible alternative futures need to be sketched with probabilities assigned to…...

50+ min ago  (1402+ words) " July 3, 2026 These calls proved correct and provided a stable analytical base to work from during a period of political transition from ANC majority to coalition government. The firm was throughout sufficiently confident in those calls that it saw little need…...

12+ hour, 41+ min ago  (633+ words) " July 3, 2026 Relations between the two countries have been frayed for more than a decade and have deteriorated significantly under the tenure of President Cyril Ramaphosa, whose government has failed to secure trade and investment pacts with the United States (US)…...

12+ hour, 41+ min ago  (203+ words) " July 3, 2026 At this newspaper we second all of that. If it were not for private security firms and lawfully armed gunowners, much of the economy would have collapsed into lawless anarchy. The business community and urban middle-class South Africa survives…...

1+ day, 57+ min ago  (327+ words) " July 2, 2026 Johann Rupert, the veteran South African businessman, has continued his backing of the Khaya Lam project, an initiative of the Free Market Foundation (FMF). The FMF confirmed that Rupert would recapitalise Khaya Lam with an undisclosed amount. Khaya Lam,…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (645+ words) " July 2, 2026 By the end of the century 12 of the world's most populous countries will be African, and South Africa will be among them. This is according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center, a non-partisan American think tank. According…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago  (542+ words) " July 1, 2026 According to a statement from the Presidency, Willie Aucamp from the Democratic Alliance (DA) will replace John Steenhuisen as the Minister of Agriculture, and Aucamp's DA colleague, David Maynier, will replace Aucamp as Minister of Forestry, Fisheries, and the…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (545+ words) " June 30, 2026 An unusual missive from a former African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament (MP) Faiez Jacobs was recently published in the Cape Argus and swirled around the fever swamps of the neighbourhood Whats App groups. What was interesting, however,…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (560+ words) " July 1, 2026 Around 28. 6 million South Africans are registered to vote, but this is only about 62% of the country's total adult population. This became known after the Electoral Commission (IEC) released its most recent voter registration figures, following a voter registration weekend…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (290+ words) " July 1, 2026 The first lesson is what this newspaper warned about on Tuesday when it wrote that the whole crisis arose from "the overarching policy philosophy of South Africa's governments since the formation of the country in 1910, that the people within…...