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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><atom:link href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AWhmUmEQMb8/ntando-thukwana.rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[South Africa Halts Parcel Deliveries to US Over Trump Tariffs]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-29/south-africa-s-halts-parcel-deliveries-to-us-over-trump-tariffs</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-29/south-africa-s-halts-parcel-deliveries-to-us-over-trump-tariffs</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ntando Thukwana]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:18:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/inTHFrQ8jLUI/v3/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/inTHFrQ8jLUI/v3/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description/></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Africa Forms G-20 Inequality Panel Chaired by Stiglitz]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/south-africa-forms-g-20-inequality-panel-chaired-by-stiglitz</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/south-africa-forms-g-20-inequality-panel-chaired-by-stiglitz</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ntando Thukwana]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ia3HULjMxU9g/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ia3HULjMxU9g/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Joseph Stiglitz </media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Africa Power Prices to Rise as Eskom Settles Dispute]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/south-africa-sees-higher-power-prices-as-eskom-settles-dispute</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-28/south-africa-sees-higher-power-prices-as-eskom-settles-dispute</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Burkhardt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 09:50:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/izT5vbShKPkg/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/izT5vbShKPkg/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Electricity pylons near the Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. Kendal coal-fired power plant in Mpumalanga. 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Sentrarand depot, in the Benoni district of Gauteng, South Africa. Photographer: Bloomberg/Bloomberg</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Africa Urged to Factor Climate Risk Into Monetary Policy]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-21/south-africa-urged-to-factor-climate-risk-into-monetary-policy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-21/south-africa-urged-to-factor-climate-risk-into-monetary-policy</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ntando Thukwana]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:46:42 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iGmAz88Jb_Jk/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iGmAz88Jb_Jk/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>The port area stands beyond commercial high-rise properties as the sun rises in Cape Town, South Africa, on Thursday, July 23, 2020. South Africa’s surging coronavirus infections and the resumption of rolling blackouts are clouding the outlook for the economy.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[South African Inflation Climbs, Reducing Chance of Rate Cut]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-20/south-africa-s-inflation-rate-climbs-to-10-month-high-in-july</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-20/south-africa-s-inflation-rate-climbs-to-10-month-high-in-july</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ntando Thukwana]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 08:05:01 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iF.GgGFlFSWM/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iF.GgGFlFSWM/v0/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A street vendor pulls a cart of fruit in Johannesburg. 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It takes place amid a &quot;complex&quot; international environment caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Some 30 heads of state and government are expected to attend the event at a time when the import-dependent North African nation is grappling with a deepening economic malaise. 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South Africa&apos;s growing fruit exports have been a rare bright spot in a stagnant economy, but now they are in peril too by the near collapse of the state rail and ports company.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[Key Data Suggests South Africa GDP Grew for Third Straight Quarter]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-15/key-data-suggests-s-africa-gdp-grew-for-third-straight-quarter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-15/key-data-suggests-s-africa-gdp-grew-for-third-straight-quarter</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ntando Thukwana]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iZ4VPkkjCcvc/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iZ4VPkkjCcvc/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Workers at the Waterval smelter, operated by Anglo American Platinum Ltd., outside Rustenburg, South Africa, on Monday, April 29, 2024. BHP has made its $39 billion proposal to buy Anglo American in large part because the world’s biggest miner wants to grow in copper.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Africa Has Met 10% of Reform Targets, New Tracker Shows]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/south-africa-has-met-10-of-reform-targets-new-tracker-shows</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/south-africa-has-met-10-of-reform-targets-new-tracker-shows</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ntando Thukwana]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:55:17 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i0SPVTANkWLM/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i0SPVTANkWLM/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>A street vendor sells oranges on a busy road in the Maboneng area of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Friday, Aug. 1, 2025. The South African Reserve Bank is poised to extend its longest easing cycle since 2019 on the eve of stiffer US trade tariffs, which are likely to weigh on the country’s already sluggish economic growth.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Africa Business Mood Hits Four-Month High, Tariffs a Risk]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-13/south-africa-business-mood-hits-four-month-high-tariffs-a-risk</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-13/south-africa-business-mood-hits-four-month-high-tariffs-a-risk</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ntando Thukwana]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[South Africa’s Kganyago Presses Case for 3% Inflation Target]]></title><link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-12/kganyago-sees-lower-south-african-inflation-cutting-country-risk</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-12/kganyago-sees-lower-south-african-inflation-cutting-country-risk</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ntando Thukwana]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:40:41 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i3GJgeuJiYic/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i3GJgeuJiYic/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Lesetja Kganyago, governor of South Africa&apos;s Reserve Bank, during the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Spring meetings at the IMF headquarters in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, April 25, 2025. 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