Government welcomes the latest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) results released by Statistics South Africa today (2 December 2025), showing that the economy grew by 0,5% in the third quarter of 2025. The ...

South Africa’s current-account deficit unexpectedly narrowed in the third quarter, reflecting an improvement in the nation’s ...

President Donald Trump signed yet another executive order on Friday, Feb. 7, but the latest had little to do with the United States. Instead, it addressed South Africa, freezing aid to the country ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday, without citing evidence, that "certain classes of people" in South Africa were being treated "very badly" and that he would ...

After months of escalating tensions between the U.S. and South Africa, President Donald Trump hosted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House on Wednesday. Prior to the meeting, ...

The Trump administration’s hostile approach to South Africa was shaped by a convergence of factors. White South Africans at a February rally outside the United States Embassy in Pretoria, above.Credit ...

The president ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the resettling of white, “Afrikaner refugees” into the United States. By ...

The State Department has dodged on how it is financing their resettlement. The Trump administration's move to prioritize the resettlement of white South African refugees in the United States even as ...

Wandile Sihlobo is the Chief Economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (Agbiz) and a member of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC). The South African government has ...