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2026-11-02 · Semafor · Politics

The ANC set to lose South African cities

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2026-11-04 · Semafor · Politics

South Africa downplays AGOA blow

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2026-10-09 · Semafor · World

Zambia agrees health deal with US after resolving dispute

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2026-11-02 · Semafor · Economy/Business

Drilling imminent at Namibia oil deposit, TotalEnergies says

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2026-10-30 · Semafor · World

Tanzania and Angola reach agreement to connect rail corridors

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2026-10-30 · Semafor · Economy/Business

South African lender Absa opens Gulf office

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2026-09-06 · Semafor

🔮 A separate study from the University of Cape Town, meanwhile, warned that a rushed closure of the Secunda as part of the green energy transition could wipe $550 million off South Africa’s $400 billion economy. assertive

2026-09-16 · Semafor

🔮 Implementation of the plan will continue through local elections, regardless of whether there is a new municipal administration, according to Godongwana. assertive

2026-09-22 · Semafor

🔮 To challenge this perception, the IFC is opening up its Global Emerging Market Risk Database to investors and rating agencies, hoping that hard data on credit performance will help narrow what many policymakers and business leaders call the “Africa risk premium” and bring down the cost of capital. assertive

2026-10-07 · Semafor

🔮 The creation of the Africa Credit Rating Agency (AfCRA) comes as global agencies face growing criticism for relying on offshore models that some African leaders and policymakers say misread local realities — a debate sharpened this year by Afreximbank’s public break with Fitch. AfCRA will rate governments, cities and companies, and it is meant to complement the three US firms, which control 95% of global ratings markets. The new ratings agency “will add another opinion in the market place of opinions,” said Marie-Antoinette Rose-Quatre, head of the AU body that incubated it. assertive

2026-10-09 · Semafor

🔮 “The government will not be sharing any specimens with the United States,” Health Minister Roma Chilengi said. assertive

2026-10-14 · Semafor

🔮 Its last program was a $175 million loan that expired in May last year, the latest in a string of support packages for one of the continent’s poorest countries, whose agriculture-based economy has been hit hard by extreme weather patterns. assertive

2026-10-14 · Semafor

🔮 The IMF raised its 2026 growth forecast for sub-Saharan Africa to 4.5%, cementing its position as one of the world’s fastest growing regions. assertive

2026-10-16 · Semafor

🔮 The ANC may benefit from Zuma’s absence, said Musa Xulu, an independent political analyst, adding that if he remains largely absent from the campaign trail, some ANC voters who followed him could drift back. assertive

2026-10-16 · Semafor

🔮 The discussion on new guidelines, expected to be published around March next year, follows June’s court victory for Novo Nordisk against local compounding pharmacies making unauthorized copies. assertive

2026-10-26 · Semafor

🔮 “We want to be in Hillside for the long term,” William Oplinger, Alcoa’s CEO, told investors what he’d said to President Cyril Ramaphosa in a recent meeting. assertive

2026-10-30 · Semafor

🔮 The proposed connection of the Western-backed Lobito Corridor with China-backed TAZARA would stretch between ports on Angola’s Atlantic coast and Tanzania’s Indian Ocean coast through Zambia and DR Congo, home to Africa’s richest deposits of copper and cobalt — minerals deemed vital to economic security amid the global energy transition. assertive

2026-10-30 · Semafor

🔮 Absa CEO Kenny Fihla said the office, which is looking to benefit from advisory and credit-arrangement fees, would help “connect capital from the region and from wider international markets with opportunities across Africa.” assertive

2026-11-02 · Semafor

🔮 The local government vote will decide who runs 250-plus municipalities responsible for basic service provision including water, sanitation, and refuse collection. assertive

2026-11-02 · Semafor

🔮 The French company, which took control of Mopane in September, will decide in 2028 whether it should be developed after the drilling. assertive

2026-11-04 · Semafor

🔮 Farmers and exporters warned, however, that the wine and citrus sectors could face job losses as their products become less competitive The decision deepens a rupture between Pretoria and Washington, entangling a trade dispute with the two countries’ wider political differences, raising the prospect of a prolonged standoff that gives South African an incentive to pursue opportunities in markets including China. assertive