There is common concern about deteriorating statecraft and the weakening of institutions in countries across Africa.

South Africa's economic growth slowed in the third quarter of 2025 as expected, but analysts heralded a pickup in fixed ...

Some months after Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February 1990, he told businesses that South Africa must “deracialise the exercise of economic power”. Such words unnerved the ...

PRETORIA, March 5 (Reuters) - South Africa's economy eked out marginal growth of 0.1% in the final quarter of 2023, statistics agency data showed on Tuesday, in the last gross domestic product release ...

Failing infrastructure, systemic corruption, collapsed rule of law, state incapacity in public service and state-owned entities, erosion of local government, and high crime rates are among the key ...

Imraan Valodia receives funding from a number of South African and international foundations that support academic and policy research. Everyone agrees that solving the unemployment problem in South ...

South Africa’s stagnant economy in 2025 is in the spotlight once again. Commenting in a parliamentary Q&A session, President Cyril Ramaphosa made statements about the legacy of apartheid being to ...