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The clean-technology investment platform says its first fund will initially target commercial and industrial solar and battery-storage assets across South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and Indian Ocean markets.
INVESTMENT

Airnergize Capital raises R3.89bn for African clean-energy infrastructure

Airnergize Capital says its first fund will initially target commercial and industrial solar and battery-storage assets.

  • Yogashen Pillay
3 min read
South Africa’s GDP contracts 0.2% in second quarter of 2026
GDP

South African economy shrinks 0.2% in Q2 as mining, manufacturing weaken

South Africa’s economy contracted by 0.2% in the second quarter of 2026, with trade, manufacturing and mining weighing on growth. Economists said the decline was worse than…

  • Yogashen Pillay
3 min read
Fans during the FIFA World Cup 2010 match between Portugal and Korea DPR at Cape Town Stadium. The writer says the World Cup in South Africa in 2010 united everyone in a common purpose. That common purpose is needed again.
2010 FIFA WORLD CUP

South Africa needs to unite in order to 'win the future'

What would it take for South Africa to become impossible for the world to ignore? The answer may lie in something we achieved 16 years ago.

  • Dr Nik Eberl
6 min read
Minister of Tourism, Patricia de Lille, and the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Dean Macpherson, announced on Tuesday that they formalised a strategic partnership through a Memorandum of Agreement aimed at strengthening the preparation of priority tourism infrastructure projects and unlocking greater private sector investment into South Africa's tourism economy
TOURISM
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De Lille, Macpherson team up to unlock tourism infrastructure investment

Ministers Patricia de Lille and Dean Macpherson have announced a strategic partnership to enhance tourism infrastructure in South Africa, aiming to attract private investment and…

  • Yogashen Pillay
2 min read
In a critical moment for South Africa's economy, the Government Business Partnership (GBP) has launched Phase 3, aiming to surpass the 3% growth threshold and create one million jobs by 2030.
ECONOMIC RECOVERY

Phase 3 of South Africa's Government Business Partnership: transforming stabilisation into growth

In a critical moment for South Africa's economy, the Government Business Partnership (GBP) has launched Phase 3, aiming to surpass the 3% growth threshold and create one million…

  • Dr Clarence Tshitereke
6 min read