Former South African ambassador to the United States Ebrahim Rasool was “clearly a red flag to a bull for the Trump administration”, a fellow at the Wilson Centre for Global Affairs says.

In South Africa, the interest rates decisions are taken by the South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The official interest rate is the repo rate. This is the rate at ...

especially with anxiety rising over what a potential ceasefire might really mean. As William visited a school, the Freedom School, set up in 2022 especially for Ukrainian students, he repeated the ...

This month marks the fifth anniversary of the pandemic. We asked students how their lives are different today because of it. By The Learning Network President Trump abruptly stopped providing ...

The University of Arizona is halting construction on a biomedical research center in downtown Phoenix. The man accused of shooting his brother to death appeared in front of a judge for the first ...

Over my forty years or so in and around dealing rooms and financial markets, I have heard many theories as to how to approach that problem and have settled on a process that has worked for me ...

Frans Cronje asks what would qualify us to join the club Emerging markets continue to feature prominently in global economic discussions on the back of perceived economic weaknesses in both the United ...

South Africa’s current president is Cyril Ramaphosa. The result of high interest rates and the government’s expansion of debt means that interest payments rose from R57 billion in 2010 to R162 billion ...

Yet South Africa has sided with Russia in international forums in recent times.” Roodt notes that this does not mean South Africa must simply do what the United States wants, but the government needs ...

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Kansas voters will decide in August 2026 whether to approve a constitutional amendment to elect state Supreme Court justices.

Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing millions of readers breaking news and updates on Politics, Current Affairs ...