Opinion Pieces

AYABONGA CAWE | Buyer power shaping SA’s shifting economy

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’

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

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 2026

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

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
AYABONGA CAWE Grain pits to gas — nations rethink strategic reserves

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...

AYABONGA CAWE: Energy costs threaten our industrial future

There has been no pro­gress regard­ing a nego­ti­ated price agree­ment with Eskom, read a stock exchange news ser­vice...
AYABONGA CAWE Global trade reform stalls as power struggles and war escalate

AYABONGA CAWE: Global trade reform stalls as power struggles and war escalate

The word “reform”, often emblazoned in the reports and columns of this publication, can mean many things...

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