IT WAS never meant to be anything more than a political union, similar in status to the non-aligned states. Economically, only two of the five BRICS nations, China and India are doing well, the rest are all currently in junk status. Russia was junked in 2015, followed by Brazil in 2016 and South...

THE EXIT of the United Kingdom from the European Community is not solely a result of economic forces (who would vote for market turmoil?), but is rather an abject political lesson in democratic power relations. Will Brexit give way to a Brixit, the dissolution of BRICS? If it wasn’t the constant...

IF LOCAL economic fall-out and the prospect of capital flight ultimately put paid to President Zuma's short term economic plans, take a look at what happened to the country's macro-economic outlook. After meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this month, Zuma announced that he was rep...

LINKING trade with China to human rights and a free Tibet, might sound like mutton cloth, but it could save South Africa's textile and clothing industry. Hemmed in literally by the World Trade Organisation's rules that determine how each nation conducts trade, South Africa is being swamped by che...