A new global platform maps urban heat at street level, showing how exposure is rising and falling disproportionately on poorer communities, while giving cities tools to test cooling solutions
Gauteng’s prolonged water crisis and Premier Panyaza Lesufi’s recent comments — for which he later apologised — about using hotel facilities during outages returned to the forefront as political parties responded to his State of the Province address. The speech did not provide sufficient detail on how the province would end the chronic water shortages, […]
Can essential infrastructure drive the next wave of financial inclusion? Will utilities evolve into major players in consumer finance? And who should govern household data in this emerging market? For more than a decade, Africa’s fintech story has been synonymous with mobile money. Services such as M-Pesa reconfigured payments, savings and micro-lending, creating new business […]
A year after the president’s first State of the Nation address as the leader of a coalition government, performance has been good and bad
SCORE: B+ A remarkable milestone under Ramokgopa’s leadership is an impressive and sustained electricity supply record, with over 196 consecutive days without loadshedding for the year 2025 and over 400 days of intermittent power supply. The department’s Generation Recovery Plan aimed at improving energy availability and reliability has resulted in a 71% average in the […]
South Africa has no shortage of ambition when it comes to infrastructure. A recent Nedbank report found that new infrastructure projects announced last year totaled R445 billion – more than double the year before and the largest fixed infrastructure investment since 2021. Each of these promises jobs, growth, and a shot at reversing years of […]
Instead of replacing state capacity with grassroots action, we need to strengthen state institutions to serve the poor
Polluted water is flowing into the Blood and Sand rivers
The rural economy should not be forgotten in South Africa’s economic growth agenda,
Antimicrobial resistance threatens global health and economic stability. Urgent investment in surveillance, innovation and stewardship is critical to containment
The state has tried the neoliberalism model in various forms for 31 years, and it has not worked
Black economic empowerment has been transformative but it needs to be revisited to broaden its pool of beneficiaries
The recent outage in Spain and Portugal shows we must modernise how we transport power, supported by AI and automation
The president and the national treasury launched phase two of Operation Vulindlela on Wednesday, expanding its focus areas
Failure in water provision has a ripple effect on other sectors
Upgrading and repairing infrastructure should be a national priority
They criticised the Gauteng premier’s water and electricity solutions as misguided
In his 2025 State of the Nation address the president promised improved healthcare access and infrastructure
That South Africa (SA) needs infrastructure and economic growth is no secret, the trick really is how to bolster both these critical needs
The 2024 Ibrahim Index of African Governance report ranks South Africa and Mauritius in the top two in the business and labour environment
