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1 week ago | theafricareport.com | Julian Pecquet |Carien Du Plessis |in Johannesburg

Business tycoon and Confederation of African Football (CAF) chief Patrice Motsepe sidestepped questions from The Africa Report about his South African presidential ambitions when approached on the sidelines of the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles. “Let’s focus on this exciting announcement,” he said on Wednesday, after unveiling a $1m prize for this year’s Milken-Motsepe Innovation Prize. Get full access to The Africa Report

1 week ago | theafricareport.com | Carien Du Plessis |in Johannesburg

Lobbyists within South Africa‘s largest political party, the African National Congress (ANC), have approached businessman Patrice Motsepe to run for party president at its December 2027 conference. Motsepe is said to be open to the idea. “He wants it, but the question is how will he do it,” an ANC official told The Africa Report this week. “He hasn’t really been active in politics.” Get full access to The Africa Report

2 weeks ago | theafricareport.com | Carien Du Plessis |in Johannesburg

South Africa’s finance minister Enoch Godongwana will table a third attempt at a national budget, even as some political parties call for his dismissal. Parliament is set to consider a revised national budget following political fallout in the fragile governing coalition and a court ruling that halted the previous version. Godongwana’s latest attempt comes after an urgent and unprecedented court order stopped him from implementing a 0.5% value-added tax (VAT) hike on 1 May.

2 weeks ago | theafricareport.com | Carien Du Plessis |in Johannesburg

The national budget proposal in February to increase value-added tax (VAT) by 2% nearly caused the coalition government to collapse. Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s midnight announcement that the revised proposal of a 0.5% VAT hike would be scrapped comes just a week before it was due to come into effect.

4 weeks ago | theafricareport.com | Carien Du Plessis |in Johannesburg

Boer Grobler, 56, is fixing his home so he can sell it, as he doesn’t see himself living in South Africa any longer. He is hoping to be picked for US President Donald Trump’s programme that will give refugee status to white Afrikaner farmers who fear crime or land dispossession, or, as a US Embassy official in Pretoria puts it, “are victims of unjust racial discrimination”. As a farmer, Grobler Get full access to The Africa Report