Africa’s biggest financial complaint isn’t that it lacks capital, but that it has been paying too much to access it. The continent’s answer is its own credit rating agency, set to open its doors in... 

If you are on a quest to establish what is certain in life, you might be led to believe American statesman Benjamin Franklin, who, in a letter dated November 13, 1789, stated that “nothing can be... 

New South African smelting technology that uses 70% less electricity has reached the commercialisation phase. Domestically advanced ultra-high-dense-media-separation processing is poised to... 

Recent interventions by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana and the National Treasury have helped shed light on issues that had hitherto been allowed to fester in dark corners. The most high-profile... 

In an earlier edition of this column, I described 2026 as Africa’s bumper election year because of the unusually crowded electoral calendar across the continent and singled out Zambia’s August 13... 

Just over a month after South Africa became the eleventh country to notify its intention to initiate a safeguard investigation in 2026, the twenty-first such case, it increased the tally to 22 by... 

Instead of relying primarily on traditional geological interpretation, South Africa must urgently turn to artificial intelligence (AI) for help, in the same way as has been done so successfully in... 

The uptake of rooftop solar in South Africa has increased dramatically over the past five or so years, spurred initially by the extreme loadshedding from 2021 to 2024. Using satellite and other... 

When South African law-enforcement agents periodically crack down on illegal mining, television cameras invariably find the same subjects: grimy individuals emerging from mine shafts, blinking into... 

Zambia’s Copperbelt is covered with billboards, posters and lamppost flags as President Hakainde Hichilema uses the power of his incumbency to urge voters to apply “more salt”, that is, to make... 

Inattentional blindness, or change blindness, is considered a psychological glitch that occurs when the brain actively filters out unexpected details to avoid information overload, meaning you can... 

Under-investment in electricity, ports and rail infrastructure has increased the cost of doing business in South Africa and weakened the competitiveness of our economy. Fixed investment has fallen... 

Transitions are never easy. They are disruptive and are often fiercely resisted. South Africa navigated its own grand political transition in 1994, following a period of intense uncertainty and... 

Every so often, Africa unveils a corruption scandal so audacious that even the most seasoned investigators momentarily lose the plot: one official pays millions for goods that never existed,...