A Sector in Slow Retreat This was not a one-quarter stumble. Manufacturing has now lost 35,000 jobs over the past year, a 2.7 percent annual decline, with cuts spread across food and beverages, textiles, chemicals, metals and transport equipment, according to Stats SA. Business services lost 13,000 positions, trade shed
The 18th BRICS Summit has concluded in New Delhi, as BRICS marks 20 years of cooperation. From four countries to 11 members and 10 partner countries, BRICS today represents nearly half of the world’s population, around 30% of the global economy and one-fifth of global trade. Amid conflicts, trade tensions
Across the Global Majority, emerging economies are rethinking the plumbing of international trade. Rather than routing transactions through Western clearing houses and reserve currencies, countries across Southeast Asia and the wider BRICS+ bloc are building payment systems, data rules and currency arrangements designed on their own terms. Nowhere is this
Across the Global Majority, emerging economies are rethinking the plumbing of international trade. Rather than routing transactions through Western clearing houses and reserve currencies, countries across Southeast Asia and the wider BRICS+ bloc are building payment systems, data rules and currency arrangements designed on their own terms. Nowhere is this
Across the Global Majority, emerging economies are rethinking the plumbing of international trade. Rather than routing transactions through Western clearing houses and reserve currencies, countries across Southeast Asia and the wider BRICS+ bloc are building payment systems, data rules and currency arrangements designed on their own terms. Nowhere is this
Trading Trucks for Pipes The scale of what this replaces is easy to miss. Right now, virtually all of Ethiopia’s imported fuel moves by tanker truck along a single congested corridor, a system prone to delays, spillage and cost overruns. The new pipeline, developed jointly by Ethiopian Investment Holdings, Dangote
Trading Trucks for Pipes The scale of what this replaces is easy to miss. Right now, virtually all of Ethiopia’s imported fuel moves by tanker truck along a single congested corridor, a system prone to delays, spillage and cost overruns. The new pipeline, developed jointly by Ethiopian Investment Holdings, Dangote
President Ntuli, MD of HPE South Africa, put the problem plainly: when South Africa adopted a cloud-first approach across the public sector, it accelerated digital transformation but entrenched deep dependency on a small number of global providers. By failing to build meaningful national capability alongside adoption, the country surrendered influence
President Ntuli, MD of HPE South Africa, put the problem plainly: when South Africa adopted a cloud-first approach across the public sector, it accelerated digital transformation but entrenched deep dependency on a small number of global providers. By failing to build meaningful national capability alongside adoption, the country surrendered influence
Indian critical minerals producer Lohum is pursuing nickel mines in Indonesia and the Philippines, but the acquisition drive is really a proxy for a far larger story: India’s attempt to build a domestic, mine-to-manufacturing supply chain for electric vehicle batteries, one that no longer depends on Chinese processing. Founder and