Nedbank and Standard Bank’s agripreneur programmes are transforming South Africa’s agriculture by equipping emerging farmers with skills, market access, and land partnerships. Through hands-on training and connections to major retailers, the programmes are addressing funding challenges, creating jobs, and boosting food security in communities.

Lesetja Kganyago told a Washington think tank that the Group of Twenty could return to its ‘previous levels of excellence’, despite fundamental problems, notably its ‘overloaded and unfocused agenda’.

Pope Francis, not for nothing the namesake of St Francis of Assisi, died on Easter weekend, a wonderful coda to a remarkable career. Francis was a compassionate reformer who tried to modernise the church, and it was a mark of his humility that he appeared in public to deliver Easter blessings less than 24 hours before his death. In this podcast, entrepreneur Mark Barnes and Daily Maverick...

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The McKinsey case forces us to ask uncomfortable questions about the behaviour of multinationals operating in governance-compromised jurisdictions. It is easy for firms to speak the language of ethics and integrity from glass towers in New York or London. But it is at the coalface, when ethical decisions are inconvenient, risky, or expensive, that a company’s real values are revealed.

One key driver of the March CPI print was education costs. South African students a few years ago were protesting under the slogan ‘Fees Must Fall’, and while they have hardly fallen, their annual increase has moderated.

Recent Peace and Security Council elections revived debates about whether membership should favour inclusion and fairness or regional capacity and influence.