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President Cyril Ramaphosa has reaffirmed South Africa’s place in the G20, rejecting his United States counterpart Donald Trump’s claim that the country would be excluded from next year’s summit (X)

The new trade playbook: Africa’s response to US bilateralism

Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs will be felt across Africa

  • Eyaaz
4 min read
South Africa hosts the G20 leaders summit this weekend. (@G20org/X)

G20 finance track calls for IMF reform, revitalising the World Trade Organisation, inclusive global growth

The need to ensure the independence of central banks was also one of the key recommendations from South Africa’s G20 finance track

  • Eyaaz
5 min read
Graphic: John McCann/M&G

Democracy on the line in global economic trade stand-off

Donald Trump’s executive orders are of dubious constitutionality, having violated civil rights of federal workers, weaponised immigration laws and limited Congress’s powers over the budget

  • Eyaaz
6 min read
Grapefruit pass through a rinsing machine on the sorting line of the Canyon Pakker’s packhouse on the Blydevallei Boerdery citrus farm outside Hoedspruit. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Citrus clash: South Africa takes on the EU’s tough new export rules

The European Union has set out new regulations for citrus exports that will hurt South African citrus growers

  • Des Erasmus
4 min read
Trade war: The Capture of Puerto Bello, 21 November 1739 by Samuel Scott. Portobello was ‘founded’ in 1597 by a Spanish explorer. From the 16th to the 18th centuries it was an important silver-exporting port. It was captured in 1739 by a British fleet during the War of Jenkins’ Ear. Photo: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

Trade agreements: The little known agent of global inequality

In the name of free trade, countries went to war in the 1700s and 1800s. Today, trade is the continuation of the politics of war by other means

  • Eyaaz
11 min read