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  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    South African economy
    Departure of CEO adds to crisis at South Africa’s port and rail monopoly

    Transnet predicted to become ‘next Eskom’ as problems pile up at state transport group

    Portia Derby,
  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    Management consulting
    Bain hires former UK minister Gerry Grimstone for Saudi project

    Appointment comes after government lifted ban on consultancy tenders imposed over South Africa scandal

    Lord Gerry Grimstone was an unpaid minister for investment
  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    Prime property
    Hot property: five homes for sale in Cape Town

    From a solar-powered villa looking out to the Atlantic Ocean to a house with a 20-person dine-in wine cellar

    A top floor of a house with views of the suburbs below and further out to the ocean
  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    David Pilling
    South Africans’ support for Russia is rooted in misplaced nostalgia

    Condemning Moscow does not mean unthinking adherence to the west

    Cyril Ramaphosa stands shoulder to shoulder with Vladimir Putin as they talk
  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    David Pilling
    A fire in South Africa symbolises an entire system gone up in flames

    The blaze in Johannesburg tells a story of xenophobia, urban neglect and political dysfunction

    A woman stands in a doorway looking into a makeshift kitchen in a building that has been taken over
  • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
    Deadly Johannesburg fire exposes post-apartheid South Africa’s systemic failures

    Slum dwelling where 77 people died reflects many of the things that have gone wrong in the country and wider region

    Workers lay bricks to barricade the windows of the building in Johannesburg where 77 died in a fire
  • Saturday, 9 September, 2023
    South African politics
    Mangosuthu Buthelezi, polarising prince and powerbroker, dies aged 95

    The Zulu royal founded the Inkatha Freedom Party that fought a civil war with the African National Congress

  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Inquiry rejects US claims that South Africa supplied arms to Russia

    Ambassador alleges weapons were loaded on to Lady R ship docked in Cape Town

    The Lady R docked at the Simon’s Town Naval Base
  • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
    At least 73 die as fire sweeps through Johannesburg apartment block

    Authorities say building in central business district had housed an ‘informal settlement’

    Smoke rises from the burning building in Johannesburg
  • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
    Emerging markets
    Brics leaders invite 6 nations including Saudis and Iran to join bloc

    South African president Cyril Ramaphosa says countries will be admitted next year in ‘first phase of expansion process’

    South African president Cyril Ramaphosa speaks at the Brics summit in Johannesburg
  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
    Emerging markets
    South Africa and China find common ground on Brics expansion

    Cyril Ramaphosa and Xi Jinping hold talks ahead of emerging markets summit in Johannesburg

    Xi Jinping, left, and Cyril Ramaphosa during a pre-summit state visit
  • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
    Geopolitics
    China urges Brics to become geopolitical rival to G7

    Leaders from bloc of developing economies will gather this week to debate expansion

  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
    HTSI
    The breathtaking world of kelp diving

    A quest for shark encounters in Cape Town leads to a wonder world – and conservation lessons – below the surface

  • Tuesday, 15 August, 2023
    Global Economy
    Brics creator slams ‘ridiculous’ idea for common currency

    Jim O'Neill questions emerging nations bloc’s achievements as it considers expansion

    Jim O’Neill, former chief economist of Goldman Sachs
  • Friday, 11 August, 2023
    South African politics
    S Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma pardoned after ‘special remission’

    Successor Cyril Ramaphosa approves release as part of arrangement that frees thousands of other prisoners

    South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma
  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    South Africa calls end to long run of interest rate hikes

    Central bank keeps benchmark at 8.25 per cent after inflation returns to target range

    The South African Reserve Bank headquarters in Pretoria
  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    Putin to skip summit in South Africa after arrest warrant

    Indicted Russian leader’s presence would have been difficult for Ramaphosa’s government

    Russian president Vladimir Putin, left, speaks to South African president Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
    Russia threatened to ‘declare war’ over enforcing Putin arrest warrant

    South Africa president in dilemma over summit invite in face of ICC war crimes indictment

    Russian president Vladimir Putin, right, met South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Friday, 14 July, 2023
    Vladimir Putin
    Ramaphosa will try to dissuade Putin from attending Johannesburg Brics meeting

    South Africa obliged to arrest Russia’s president over war crimes indictment

    Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, holds a talk with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
    David Pilling
    Nigeria’s recovery might be a better bet than South Africa’s

    The two giants have faced a decade of woe but one has a better chance of turning a corner

    Passengers sit at a bus station beside campaign poster of President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima in Lagos last month
  • Friday, 30 June, 2023
    Ramaphosa cleared of wrongdoing over Phala Phala theft

    State ombudsman says no evidence South African president abused his power over incident at his private game farm

    Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
    FT GlobetrotterSplashing out: FT Globetrotter’s summer swimming guide
    FT readers: your favourite outdoor urban swimming spots around the world

    From Tel Aviv to Texas, via Sydney and San Francisco, you share your top spots for an open-air dip in the city

    A male swimmer in the water at Wylie’s Baths, Sydney
  • Friday, 23 June, 2023
    US Dollar
    Yellen defends dollar as Brics nations debate reserve status

    South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa says greenback’s dominance is ‘on the agenda’ for Brics meeting

    Janet Yellen
  • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    US plays down spat with South Africa over arms to Russia claim

    Washington signals dispute will be addressed privately to preserve important relationship

    Cyril Ramaphosa and Joe Biden
  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    David Pilling
    South Africa and the limits of having it both ways

    Pretoria wants to be both a democracy with a progressive constitution and a friend to dictators

    Cyril Ramaphosa wearing ANC green and gold in front of banners in the same colours
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