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South Africa needs a renewable energy industrial strategy, not just requirements for green power projects to buy a percentage of solar parts from local companies.
With the foot-and-mouth disease epidemic wreaking havoc on livestock marketing, it is crucial to protect areas that are still free of the disease. This can be achieved by ensuring that infected animals are not transported – something for which the legal framework exists, but the capacity to enforce it is lacking. Foot-and-mouth disease is a […]
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Competition for shea trees is rising in west Africa, leaving the poorest women collectors with less access and fewer gains.
Edwin Mtei, Tanzania’s first central bank governor, showed that people can hold different views without enmity.
The rules make it almost impossible to run an informal business legally
Museveni came to power with the sense that violence is critical to politics, and especially critical to liberation politics.
In South Africa, discarded pineapple leaves can now be turned into a low-cost, eco-friendly solution for both cleaning polluted water and forensics.
There are 2.6-million more jobs than in 2008, but 10.4-million more people who need them
This appears to be the most draconian pre-publication interdict we have come across
Ghanaian bank lending to agriculture and manufacturing is in decline
Black mambas were found to be indicators of toxic poisons from heavy metals.
There are currently three Afrikaners in Washington who believe there is a unique opportunity for a spectacular reset of relations between South Africa and the United States (US). The full provisional document is attached herewith: Let us Make Critical Minerals the Centerpiece of a New U.S.–South Africa Partnership Agreement As Afrikaners responsible for a multi-million-dollar […]
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Stored data contributes to greenhouse gas emissions by needing power for servers and cooling systems.
If South Africa wants to make its own path in the global order, it must expect reprisals.
A recently approved drug for malaria treatment offers hope to millions of children who suffer from the disease in Africa.
African Development Bank warns that economic growth could drop to 0.5% next year
Chinese manufactured cloth has undermined the monopoly on the trade of Dutch African print textiles that Togolese traders once enjoyed.
The company had wanted to stop three “whistleblowers” and a journalist from reporting that it was importing and not locally manufacturing its solar panels
There have been too many prepublication gag orders in recent times
The United States’ announced 30% trade tariffs, likely driven by underlying geopolitical motives, are, by implication, a direct attack on the economic benefits South Africa derives from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). These tariffs are also a response to South Africa’s growing diplomatic and economic ties with countries such as those in BRICS, […]
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Episode four in GroundUp’s video series on microplastics
Makhado Special Economic Zone, announced in 2018, was intended to attract investments of R40-billion
After the Trump administration’s threat of 50% import duty on Lesotho, orders have dried up and production lines have shut down
The news that Goodyear South Africa is closing its manufacturing plant in Uitenhage/Kariega comes as a severe blow to the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro (NMBM) and the local economy. More than a thousand workers and their families face an uncertain future. This is a Metro where unemployment already stands at a staggering 33% and the […]
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