This week's AGOA trade conference comes amid tensions over South Africa's alignment with BRICS, despite a high degree of reliance on American trade in recent years.
After having a project defeated locally for failure to conduct a thorough environmental impact assessment, the Drakenstein municipality has secured a grant from central government.
The use of forced labour by unregulated foreign fishing vessels, and the capture of the Cape fishing industry by BEE has resulted in a slow catastrophe for our communities
Sections 23 and 32 of the 2005 Act, which allow bargaining agreements to become legally binding on non-parties, have enabled cartel-like arrangements between big business and big unions
While the Finance Minister sweats about the difficulties of slashing state spending in a corrupt semi-socialist economy, our papers are telling us the real danger is not spending enough
Grahamstown's municipal systems notoriously failed in the same year as the town was renamed. But the story of the man it was named after holds deeper ironies
Why the BRICS expansion increases the geopolitical importance of the Cape
Why the Cape will be important to the geopolitical interests of the West in the coming years.
Koos Malan paints a picture of a crumbling state in retreat from daily life in South Africa. But breaking from the state and its controls is more then a mere matter of enforcement capacity.
How the CIAG and Solidariteit have recently used ultimatums against the political establishment to move their visions forward