African governments spend as much as 22 per cent of their GDP on debt servicing. Thirty-two African nations spend more servicing external debt than funding healthcare, while 25 allocate more to debt than to education. It’s a moral crisis that needs to be addressed, not only at fora like the G20 but by all the […]
The proverb, ‘beware of Greeks bearing gifts’, derived from the story of the Trojan horse in Virgil’s Aeneid, is probably a good way to describe the brouhaha surrounding Starlink’s possible entry into South Africa. Evidence suggests that the technology itself could be a means to bridge the digital divide in rural areas, where connectivity remains […]
For the first time, South Africa is taking leadership of the G20, a forum comprising 19 countries with the world’s largest economies, plus the European Union and the African Union. This offers a significant opportunity to address not only the interests of Africa, but that of the Global South. The nations of the G20 account […]
If you are one of those people who always see the glass as half full, the drama around the cancellation of the Budget speech is probably a ‘glass half full’ moment. It can be viewed as our democracy maturing in an era of coalition politics. And that is a good thing. Economic Digest 50 – […]
