DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFT Fewer babies, slower growth and the implications of declining fertility rates worldwide 5 min 5 By Dominique Olivier
CREDIBILITY CRASH SA still scoring frequent own goals in international trade relations 5 min 0 By Mills Soko
SA’S ECONOMIC TRAJECTORY Explainer: Ramaphosa making sunshine out of RDP and RET shadows 6 min 3 By Lindsey Schutters
CANARY IN THE COALMINE Running on empty – OECD, banks and business warn SA of stagnation 6 min 1 By Yeshiel Panchia
PARLIAMENT It’s not BEE holding SA economy back, it’s exclusive ownership, says Ramaphosa 4 min 68 By Victoria O’Regan
SMME FOCUS SMME Focus: How SA banks are rethinking SMME finance in a cash-first economy 4 min 1 By Kara Le Roux
BUSINESS REFLECTION After the Bell: Decoding the truth after SA’s Budget 2025 Rashomon 3 min 4 By Tim Cohen
ECONOMY IMF slashes SA, global growth forecasts as tariffs reach highest level in a century under Trump 3 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
FISCAL FICTIONS OP-ED The exclusivity of inclusive growth (Part 1) — to those that hath shall always be given 9 min 2 By Jeff Rudin
ANALYSIS BEE on borrowed time — why attacks on SA’s social engineering project won’t abate this time 4 min 72 By Stephen Grootes
ANALYSIS SA mirrors the new world disorder, where might is right and the weak are crushed underfoot 3 min 7 By Stephen Grootes
FISCAL MISSTEP OP-ED Reserve Bank’s lowering of the inflation target could damage South Africa’s prospects for growth 5 min 1 By Owen Willcox
SONA 2025 Ramaphosa aims for 3% growth, targeting infrastructure investment 2 min 19 By Ferial Haffajee
SEEDS OF DOUBT Was SA's 2024 third-quarter GDP contraction caused by an overestimation of agriculture's decline? 4 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
BUSINESS REFLECTION After the Bell: Does SA finally have a better story to tell at Davos 2025? 4 min 1 By Ed Stoddard
ANALYSIS The year ahead: Identifying critical issues amid the political and economic noise of 2025 4 min 1 By Stephen Grootes
BUSINESS REFLECTION After the Bell: The Economist’s long-overdue epiphany on 'the capitalist revolution Africa needs' 4 min 10 By Tim Cohen
