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  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    News in-depthMoney laundering
    South Africa eyes removal from money laundering ‘grey list’

    Country confident of shift by global financial crime watchdog after prosecutions blitz, says central bank governor

    Lesetja Kganyago, governor of South Africa’s Reserve Bank
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
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    The truth behind South Africa’s murder scourge

    Donald Trump’s false narrative of ‘genocide’ against white farmers obscures ways violence blights daily life in country

    The scene following a shooting at a taxi rank in Johannesburg
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Investors press South Africa to lower inflation target

    Central bank also argues current 3-6% goal keeps long-term price risks ‘higher than they need to be’

    A pedestrian carries a colourful umbrella as she passes street traders on a road near the headquarters of the South African Reserve Bank in Pretoria, South Africa
  • Saturday, 14 June, 2025
    FT Magazine
    How apartheid South Africa became a road map for the far right

    More than 30 years after the collapse of the racist regime, its ideas echo once again

    A Black man in a suit reads on a bench marked “Europeans Only”
  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
    House & Home Sunshine & Waterside Living Special
    Do too many people want a slice of Cape Town?

    South Africa’s second city is at a crossroads: those flocking to live there are powering the economy, but also driving up house prices and exacerbating a strained market and local infrastructure. For a city surrounded by ocean and mountains, the expansionist path forwards is a complex one

    View of white-walled apartment buildings midway up a mountainous cliffside, with bushes and rocks between the buildings and the beach
  • Thursday, 5 June, 2025
    Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest-Growing Companies
    Cape Town’s cluster effect is key draw for businesses

    Top universities, good infrastructure and a relaxed lifestyle ensure South Africa’s start-up hub rivals Lagos and Nairobi

    A city building with steps leading up to a classical portico
  • Thursday, 5 June, 2025
    Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest-Growing Companies
    South African power cuts help boost solar panel supplier

    Herholdt’s Group faces challenges after riding high on national load shedding crisis in recent years

    Two construction workers in safety gear handling large solar panels at a construction site
  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    South Africa faces backlash over plan to change law for Musk’s Starlink

    Opposition accuses Pretoria of ‘backroom deal’ over proposal to water down rules on Black ownership

  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    The Big Read
    Is South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa running out of time?

    He may have survived a bruising encounter with Donald Trump, but the veteran ANC politician is facing forbidding challenges at home and abroad

    Montage image of Ramaphosa, ANC and EFF activists
  • Saturday, 24 May, 2025
    News in-depthSouth African politics
    Trump and the tortured history of South Africa’s land

    Land ownership remains country’s toughest policy problem as it grapples with the legacy of apartheid

    An aerial view of the poor black squatter camp Kya Sands, home to South Africans and many African immigrants on July 19, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    South Africa moves to change empowerment law for Musk’s Starlink

    Potential loosening of Black ownership rules came after billionaire said his satellite internet group would not comply

    The logo of the Starlink satellite-internet communication system
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    South Africa’s mugging at the White House

    Violence against Afrikaner farmers needs to stop, but it is not a genocide

    South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and US President Donald Trump
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    OutlookDavid Pilling
    Cape Town fights off a baboon invasion

    Aggressive tactics used to scare off the animals have set humans against simians and neighbour against neighbour

    Baboon looking through the windshield Western Cape near Cape Town
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    South African politics
    Trump attacks South Africa’s Ramaphosa over alleged targeting of white farmers

    US president brandishes printed media reports of what he claims are murdered farmers in Oval Office exchange

    US President Donald Trump (R) holds up news articles related to violence in South Africa during a meeting with South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Alec Russell
    Listen to Afrikaners, not Trump, on the state of South Africa

    The white minority does have justified anxieties but many are thriving and it is absurd to talk of a ‘genocide’

    President Donald Trump greets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    South African politics
    South Africa turns to golf diplomacy to woo Trump

    Ernie Els set to join Cyril Ramaphosa for White House meeting after breakdown in relations between Pretoria and Washington

    Ramaphosa; Trump and Els in 2017
  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    Travelista
    Five spectacular hotel revamps

    Stunning renovations that guarantee the greatest escapes  

    The Minerva bar at Orient Express La Minerva in Rome
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    US politics & policy
    White South Africans arrive in US under Trump refugee scheme

    President offered asylum to Afrikaners he says have faced violence and discrimination since end of apartheid

    White South Africans supporting US President Donald Trump
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    Mass starvation of chickens at state-backed South African farm sparks uproar

    Parliament to summon government-run pension fund manager after starving birds resorted to cannibalism

    Dead chickens inside a large poultry farm site in South Africa
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    South African politics
    South Africa scraps VAT increase in dramatic U-turn after coalition rift

    Finance minister forced into climbdown on tax rise after bitter fight with governing partner

    South Africa’s finance minister Enoch Godongwana
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    South Africa’s new US envoy brushes off past criticism of ‘racist’ Trump

    Corruption whistleblower Mcebisi Jonas says there will be ‘no quick fixes’ after Washington expelled ambassador

    Mcebisi Jonas speaking at a summit in September 2024
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    News in-depth
    Trump’s championing of Afrikaner grievances sparks backlash in South Africa

    US president and his adviser Elon Musk seize on discredited claims to launch economic assault against African nation

    Afrikaner families climb a hill in Orania, South Africa
  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    South African economy
    South Africa minister says US trade deal ‘nullified’ by Trump tariffs

    Parks Tau backs pivot to China in face of high levies from Donald Trump administration

    Parks Tau
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    South Africa’s coalition in peril after ANC passes budget without partner

    Business-friendly Democratic Alliance votes against the framework following weeks of infighting

    Enoch Godongwana delivers his 2025 budget speech in Cape Town
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    US foreign policy
    South Africa’s ANC calls Trump Afrikaner refugee plan ‘madness’

    Main party in governing coalition dismisses US accusations of white minority oppression

    White South Africans hold signs saying Mr Donald Trump Thank You Very Much
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