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	South Africa
Population:	63.2m
GDP:	$403.04bn
Debt:	72.24% of GDP (2024)

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Vol 66 No 11 |

SOUTH AFRICA
UNITED STATES

Why Musk and Rupert hold key to the Ramaphosa-Trump summit

20th May 2025

Two South African billionaires have cleared the path for a business accord to unfreeze the diplomacy

Until a month ago, the chances of President Cyril Ramaphosa getting a constructive meeting with his United States counterpart Donald J Trump appeared vanishingly small. After a barrage...

Vol 66 No 10 |

SOUTH AFRICA
WHO'S WHO

Three finance ministers in the wings

16th May 2025

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has been weakened after the three-month budget dispute that brought President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Government of National Unity to the brink of collapse. Ramaphosa is...

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Vol 66 No 9 |

SOUTH AFRICA

Treasury is the big loser after the tax hike fiasco

28th April 2025

The ANC and the DA are both battered by the budget delay but more fights over spending are likely

The latest compromise on rates for value added tax in the much-delayed budget has kept the Government of National Unity in power – but at the expense of...

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Vol 66 No 8 |

SOUTH AFRICA

The budget fight threatening to shatter the coalition

18th April 2025

Both the ANC’s Ramaphosa and the DA’s Steenhuisen are fighting to preserve power-sharing – but for vastly different reasons

When Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana failed to secure backing within the Government of National Unity (GNU) on 12 March for his proposal to raise VAT from 15% to...

Vol 66 No 7 |

SOUTH AFRICA
UNITED STATES

Pretoria picks new envoy for the MAGA minefield

27th March 2025

President Ramaphosa wants to soothe tensions with the Trump administration but Washington has appointed a hard-liner to South Africa

The choice of the United States’s new Ambassador to Pretoria – Leo Brent Bozell III – dispels any notion that President Donald J Trump’s administration might dial down...

Vol 66 No 6 |

Targeted by Trump – Africa and Europe draw closer

17th March 2025

Washington’s tariffs, visa bans and aid cuts are pushing Brussels and Pretoria into a stronger partnership

As the new United States administration targets South Africa on policy and the European Union on tariffs, it has triggered an opposite reaction – bringing President Cyril Ramaphosa...

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Vol 66 No 6 |

SOUTH AFRICA

Budget bargaining rumbles after finance minister tables revised tax plan in parliament

17th March 2025

Centre-right Democratic Alliance is using its muscle in coalition to assert dissenting economic agenda

After a majority in parliament failed to back Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s amended budget on 12 March he still has more drafting to do to get it over...

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Vol 66 No 6 |

Southern African militaries call time on their ill-fated Kivu operation

17th March 2025

The failure of the SADC mission sounds alarms about the future of multilateral attempts to resolve conflict on the continent

By agreeing that its deployment will be ‘terminated’ as part of a ‘phased withdrawal’ at a summit on 13 March, the Southern African Development Community has at last...

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Vol 66 No 6 |

Trump administration pulls plug on green energy deal

10th March 2025

International support for South Africa’s renewable plans will on the agenda at EU summit

In line with his opposition to renewable energy projects, President Donald J Trump’s decision to revoke and rescind the United States International Climate Finance Plan will mean cancelling...

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Vol 66 No 5 |

SOUTH AFRICA

Tax and spend row opens new schism in coalition

3rd March 2025

The Government of National Unity’s credibility is on the line as finance minister Godongwana prepares to return to parliament with an amended budget

When finance minister Enoch Godongwana told the cabinet on 19 February of his plan to raise value added tax to 17% from 15% just hours before he was...

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