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Poor score: Emissions rise from the Kriel power station. It’s South Africa’s support of coal-fired electricity that gives the country a bad climate change name. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
ANNA GEDDES

Fossil fuel support lands SA in the G20 dog box

South Africa has been ranked the second worst performer of the G20 non-OECD member countries, behind Saudi Arabia, for its lack of transparency and continued support for fossil…

  • Sheree Bega
3 min read
South Africa may have attained political emancipation but economically the chains largely remain. (File photo)
CHILD GRANTS

Get cash out to the poorest now

People know what they need to buy, the payments can piggyback on the Sassa system and the money will help prevent people from falling further into long-term poverty

  • Kate Orkin
5 min read
Heaps of trouble: President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation address should have given the country a plan for future energy production that is not dependent on coal. (Paul Botes)
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

Ramaphosa failed to offer us any real Sona power

This last Sona has been widely criticised for, among other things, lacking precision and detail

  • Kevin Davie
3 min read
Charges in sub-Saharan Africa average 12% on transfers of $200
AFP

Remittance ‘super tax’ costs Africa $1.8bn a year

Africans pay some of the highest charges in the world for interational money transfers – in sub-Saharan Africa it’s almost double the global average.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
AFRICA ALL PARTY PARLIAMENTARY GROUP

Africa needs stronger Parliaments to monitor aid

Britain and other Western donors need to spend money on strengthening African Parliaments to ensure they can hold governments to account for how aid is being spent, a group of…

  • Daniel Flynn
2 min read