AYABONGA CAWE | Indian sugar quotas used as ‘valve’ to offset reduced supplies
The gazette notice issued by the foreign trade directorate of the Indian Ministry of Commerce made for very terse reading.
AYABONGA CAWE | EU and Canada seek ‘global coalitions’ for resilience
A few years from now we may consider the past few days as “momentous”. Not only did the oil price breach the $100 mark…
AYABONGA CAWE | Tariff talk masks deeper issues in sugar earnings
In the letters section of this paper, a few weeks ago, one Jeremy Samson, a reader from Wynberg expressed frustration ….
AYABONGA CAWE | Eastern Cape co-ops strive for economic renewal
In a news crossing, shortly prior to the 30 June ‘deadline’ given to foreign migrants, a young African man outside the Malawian…
AYABONGA CAWE | Buyer power shaping SA’s shifting economy
‘It’s a buyers’ world; salespeople often say. Our ideas often presume it is not. Joan Robinson in her magnus opus…
AYABONGA CAWE | Farmers struggle to fill jobs after migrant ‘deadline’
In a news crossing, shortly prior to the 30 June ‘deadline’ given to foreign migrants, a young African man outside the Malawian…
AYABONGA CAWE | Regional value chains will determine Sacu’s future
Two weeks ago, the member states of the world’s oldest surviving customs union met in Cape Town. The Southern African Customs …
AYABONGA CAWE | Old labour ties shape today’s migrant struggles
Decades before the Guptas landed wedding guests at Waterkloof, Malawian prime minister Kamuzu Banda descended at…
AYABONGA CAWE | Addis bets on new strategy for industrial transformation
This is the land that in 1935 comes suddenly to the world’s attention, wrote WEB du Bois of Ethiopia, suggesting that the nation on the Horn of Africa came to the world’s notice “by being involved in war and rumours of war, a threat to the sanctity of international agreements, a crisis in Christianity (and) foreboding a new orientation in the problems of colour and race”.
AYABONGA CAWE: Grain pits to gas — nations rethink strategic reserves
When Eastern Cape farmer Gary Miles found two grain pits in 1975 “beneath a clump of scotia trees”, as recounted by historian…