South Africa’s upstream oil and gas sector rarely intersects with its foreign policy. That changed this month, when environmental justice organisation The Green Connection wrote an open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa questioning the optics of an Israeli firm becoming operator of a major offshore exploration block, precisely as Pretoria
Chery Automobile’s formal takeover of Nissan’s Rosslyn plant on 3 July 2026 is more than a change of factory ownership. It marks the moment a Chinese automaker converts import-driven market share into permanent industrial presence on South African soil , and it crystallises a broader restructuring of who builds cars
If you wanted a single week to illustrate how disconnected headline geopolitics has become from the oil market’s underlying direction, this was it. On Tuesday, tankers came under attack in the Strait of Hormuz. By Wednesday, the US had struck multiple Iranian targets and revoked its earlier authorization of Iranian
Walk onto almost any groundbreaking site in American manufacturing right now and you’ll find the same contradiction: investment dollars flowing in at a pace not seen in years, even as the underlying cost of doing business keeps rising. This week alone brought fresh evidence of both halves of that story,
NATO leaders left Ankara this week having pledged more money, more missiles, and more unity than at almost any summit in years. On paper, that’s a win for the alliance. Look closer, though, and the Ankara summit didn’t showcase NATO’s strength so much as expose its limits, and for the
South Africa’s fiscal referee has finally blown the whistle. On 7 July 2026, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana confirmed that National Treasury is temporarily withholding the July equitable share transfer, the largest unconditional grant local government receives, from Johannesburg and roughly 70 other municipalities. Reports place the exact count between 69
With just over two months to go before India hosts the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi, the bloc’s most closely watched financial initiative is entering its final testing phase. BRICS Pay, the decentralised cross-border payment architecture designed to link national settlement systems such as India’s UPI, China’s CIPS, and
Geneva convenes an urgent session of the UN Human Rights Council on Friday, an emergency response to what officials describe as an imminent catastrophe in North Kordofan. The debate, requested by Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom, comes after warnings that roughly 500,000 civilians in and around
Google’s latest investment drive signals more than an expansion of its African footprint. It reflects a strategic shift in how global technology firms view the continent, with South Africa increasingly positioned as the gateway for Africa’s next wave of digital transformation. Announced at the inaugural Google Cloud Summit in Johannesburg,
The world today is very different from what many of us know. Technological advances have not only transformed economies and industries but have also altered the way people understand events, engage with politics and participate in society. The rise of digital platforms has accelerated the flow of information across borders,