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    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      South African military deployed to prevent planned national shutdown

      Country’s radical opposition struggles to muster large numbers after calling for a day of protest

    • Saturday, 11 March, 2023
      FT Magazine
      Ernest Cole’s photographs of 1960s South Africa during apartheid

      The photographer risked his life to document the injustices of the black experience

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      South African economy
      South Africa GDP shrinks 1.3% after power cuts strangle economy

      State of disaster declared as rolling blackouts cost $50mn a day, says central bank

    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      Ramaphosa names new electricity minister in battle to beat power cuts

      Ramokgopa appointment comes after Eskom crisis causes outages of up to 12 hours a day

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Ramaphosa set to appoint electricity minister to tackle S Africa blackouts

      Cabinet reshuffle expected as government confronts claims of corruption at Eskom power monopoly

    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
      The Big Read
      Scandal at South Africa’s Eskom: the CEO and the cyanide-laced coffee

      The attempted poisoning of André de Ruyter is a dramatic example of how criminality has seeped into the country’s state

    • Sunday, 26 February, 2023
      News in-depth
      Eskom chief’s explosive interview exposes the ANC’s rotten core

      Rising frustration over pervasive corruption risks hurting South Africa’s ruling party at the polls

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      African economy
      South Africa and Nigeria put on anti-money laundering ‘grey list’

      Global watchdog says Africa’s two biggest economies need to do more to fight financial crime

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      David Pilling
      South Africa’s Russia stance shows it has lost the moral high ground

      From ethical non-aligned foreign policy, Pretoria has shifted to a might-is-right position

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      ANC launches withering attack on Eskom chief who criticised party

      André de Ruyter accuses senior politicians in ruling organisation of corruption at the utility

    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd
      Eskom chief ousted after TV broadside against South Africa politics

      Boss of crisis-hit power company had implicated senior politicians in corruption

    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd
      South Africa expands public borrowing to relieve Eskom debt

      Finance minister says Pretoria will provide state power group with $14bn as rolling blackouts worsen

    • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Sonia Boyce, Turner Contemporary — exhilarating improvisation makes new listeners of us all

      Her Golden Lion-winning work comes to the UK, full of primal sounds and social critique

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Markets InsightPaul McNamara
      Why a Brics currency is a flawed idea

      Non-Chinese members of the grouping might increase dependence on Beijing

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      South African economy
      South Africa declares ‘national state of disaster’ over blackouts

      President says rolling power cuts ‘an existential threat to our economy and our social fabric’

    • Monday, 6 February, 2023
      Anglo American PLC
      Anglo American chief sounds alarm on South African infrastructure

      FTSE 100 miner’s Duncan Wanblad warns country’s economy under threat from ‘scourges’ of power cuts, broken logistics and corruption

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      South Africa’s support underscores Moscow’s propaganda success

      Pretoria’s shifting position reveals Kremlin’s success in stoking doubt about responsibility for Ukraine war

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      South African Reserve Bank cuts forecasts after blackouts hit economy

      Rate-setters slow pace of policy tightening as growth outlook weakens

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      News in-depth
      South African businesses turn to diesel and solar panels as Eskom crisis deepens

      Companies beset by blackouts lead a surge in investment in their own supplies, mostly renewables

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      US foreign policy
      Yellen to visit African countries as US steps up overtures

      Washington is seeking to entice nations away from financial and resource ties to China

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      News in-depth
      Assassination attempt underscores criminal hold over S Africa’s Eskom

      Alleged attempt to kill chief executive André de Ruyter shows challenges he has faced in rooting out corruption

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      Ramaphosa pledges to move control of Eskom to South Africa’s energy ministry

      Plan highlights battle over power producer, whose outgoing chief suffered recent attempted poisoning

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      InterviewHow to Lead
      Investec’s Fani Titi: ‘I tell my story because I think it can make a difference’

      The financier says his journey from poverty to the boardroom has been fundamental to becoming a successful leader

    • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
      Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd
      Boss of South African power producer Eskom survived poisoning attempt in December

      André de Ruyter, who resigned after trying to overhaul the troubled utility, claims he was given cyanide-laced coffee

    • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
      Travelista
      Four healing hotels for 2023

      Where to get your groove back, from Highland hikes to an African sanctuary

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