https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AQFYiQrF-nQ/gordon-bell RSS for Node Thu, 07 May 2026 21:10:52 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-06-10/next-africa-a-cautionary-tale-of-commodity-booms-and-busts https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-06-10/next-africa-a-cautionary-tale-of-commodity-booms-and-busts Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:31:03 GMT A smelter operates at the Mufulira refinery, operated by Mopani Copper Mines Plc, in Mufulira, Zambia, on Friday, May 6, 2022. A recent 1,900-mile journey from mines in Congo and Zambia shows how, a century after commercial mining began here, the world’s hunger for copper is again reshaping the region. Photographer: Zinyange Auntony/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-12/south-africa-budget-winners-and-losers-in-reworked-fiscal-plans https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-12/south-africa-budget-winners-and-losers-in-reworked-fiscal-plans Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:12:39 GMT Shoppers in central Johannesburg. Photographer: Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-01-28/next-africa-a-bloody-new-chapter-in-a-three-decade-old-war https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-01-28/next-africa-a-bloody-new-chapter-in-a-three-decade-old-war Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:37:52 GMT TOPSHOT - Residents carry their belongings as they flee from Kibati, where fighting has intensified, towards the city of Goma on January 26, 2025. The M23 armed group has seized further territory in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and on Sunday was continuing to tighten its grip on provincial capital Goma, which is almost surrounded by fighting. 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Already Africa's largest maker of beverage cans, Nampak is seeking to expand outside of its home market of South Africa to take advantage of wider profit margins in countries like Angola and Nigeria. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-02/south-african-pmi-slides-back-to-contraction-as-sentiment-wanes https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-02/south-african-pmi-slides-back-to-contraction-as-sentiment-wanes Mon, 02 Sep 2019 09:00:00 GMT A worker operates a machine used to mold clear glass bottles at the Nampak Ltd. manufacturing plant in Roodekop, South Africa, on Friday, Feb. 26, 2016. Already Africa's largest maker of beverage cans, Nampak is seeking to expand outside of its home market of South Africa to take advantage of wider profit margins in countries like Angola and Nigeria.