Broken infrastructure, violence, administrative corruption and incompetence, as well as increasingly strict taxation and capital controls are destroying golden opportunities
The new Trans-Kalahari Railway will help provide an alternative export route for Botswana's minerals, and will begin construction in 2025
Lazard's estimates have been a global standard for energy generation cost estimates. But Hugo Kruger argues it is flawed, and significantly overestimates the cost of nuclear
The new deal seeks to put an additional 2.5GW on the grid by 2033. Previous attempts at a similar deal were litigated to extinction by foreign-funded NGOs
Land Reform, the District Development Model and the NHI all look bad enough on their own. But together they are a death knell ringing out over South Africa
The plan also aims for a grid expansion to carry the new volatile power green sources, hoping to avoid privatisation through public-private partnerships
The move extends the stay of 233 000 immigrants from the two countries, whose citizens have become infamous for the violent competition over rural jobs in the Cape