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Minister in The Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni has criticised former President Jacob Zuma's visit to India, during which he and South Africa's High Commissioner to India Anil Sooklal were pictured with fugitive businessman Ajay Gupta. The Democratic Alliance has since highlighted a contradiction, noting Parliament's portfolio committee on International Relations and Cooperation was told Sooklal acted on written instructions from the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, and it is calling on Minister Ronald Lamola to launch an urgent inquiry, with disciplinary action or dismissals sought depending on the outcome.
India features in energy, trade and industry trendsIndia is targeting 100 GWe of nuclear capacity by 2047 under a transformative global scenario outlined by the Nuclear Energy Agency, while positioning itself to accelerate its six-generation mobile timeline relative to 5G rollout. Platinum jewellery manufacturing in India, the metal's fastest-growing market, rose 4% to 280 000 oz in 2025 despite US tariffs, and India was cited as a source of steel and vehicle import pressure prompting proposed South African tariff increases.
Pharmaceutical dependence on India exposed by pandemicDepartment of Trade, Industry and Competition official Swasthi Soomaroo recalled that South Africa struggled to access basic medicines such as paracetamol after India restricted exports during the Covid-19 pandemic, reinforcing the case for a local pharmaceutical manufacturing roadmap discussed at a recent Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies dialogue.
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The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday inched its 2026 global growth forecast lower again to a sluggish 3.0%, warning of ongoing risks linked to the war in the Middle East, trade...
Industry body the World Gold Council reports that global investors have continued to reduce their exposure to physically backed gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in June, but inflows for the first...
The broader South African wind energy sector will need to up its employment by between 300% and 400% by 2042 if it is to keep pace with the proposed expansion of wind energy in the country, says...
India's restrictions on silver imports have created shortages in the world's biggest market for the precious metal, pushing premiums to their highest levels in six months despite weaker-than-usual...
Minister in The Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni on July 3 briefed media on the outcomes of the Cabinet meeting held earlier this week, noting that former President Jacob Zuma’s actions on a visit...
The DA has called on International Relations and Cooperation Minister Ronald Lamola to launch an urgent departmental inquiry into whether South Africa’s High Commissioner to India Anil Sooklal...
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), an entity of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), has cautioned that successfully fulfilling global ambitions to significantly increase...
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Sub-Saharan Africa is forecast to have the fastest 5G subscription growth globally, rising from about 30-million in 2025 to about 370-million by 2031. By 2031, total mobile subscriptions in...
South Africa’s steel industry is facing an “emergency situation” driven by global overcapacity, surging low-cost imports and collapsing domestic production, which has led to government and...
South Africa’s pharmaceutical manufacturing ambitions will depend on resolving fundamental challenges around affordability, scale, procurement and regulatory coordination. This was the overarching...
Despite metal price and import tariff headwinds, platinum jewellery delivered growth across all markets in 2025, generating the highest demand level since 2019. South Africa is the world's largest...
Abu Dhabi's International Holding Company plans to invest $11.5-billion in an integrated aluminium project in India's eastern state of Odisha through a joint venture with Adani Group, a State...
In its latest gold appraisal, industry body the World Gold Council says the performance of the gold price in the first half of this year has underscored a sensitivity to shifting macroeconomic...
The global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has reported that total global air passenger traffic fell by -2.2%, year-on-year, in...
JSE-listed Thungela Resources says it continues to monitor the impact of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East on its employees and the broader operating environment, noting that, to date, the...
Record global electricity demand last year was met entirely by low-carbon sources, resulting in fossil fuels generation being substituted rather than supplemented, the Energy Institute’s...
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