Roosevelt’s New Deal in the Dust Bowl thick of the Great Depression is an approach worth examining....

The commodity sector has long been defined by its price cyclicality — peak-trough-peak movements — often referred to as booms and busts. Though cyclicality has been a prominent feature of the sector for centuries, we still tend to become over-optimistic that booms will last forever....

Neither $8.5bn from the US and Europe nor the risk of restrictions is likely to cause immediate political change....

Affordability of basic services is important to constituents, and renewable energy could drastically reduce costs....

Trade restrictions against high emissions countries are imminent, which will hit SA’s economy....

Windfalls have not always stimulated the structural reforms required to boost the economy....

Increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters pose risk of mounting global defaults....

The fallout of ensuing wars shows that an eye for an eye can often leave us blind....

Already well endowed with key minerals, China is cosying up to the Taliban as the US leaves....

The latest UN report on climate should shock us into realising we are less than two decades away from a full-blown crisis....

Helping the province mine platinum metals would go a long way to reducing interprovincial inequality...

The events of the past few days have shown us the deep interconnectedness between inequality and social fragility. Rising inequality and despair in communities has triggered serious social unrest....

African countries can stop exporting their battery storage metals and can instead manufacture regionally...

The COVID-19 pandemic has put the global food system under sustained pressure and has triggered various policy responses to manage both supply and demand....

SA must jump into action to avert climatic shocks as the average annual cost of US weather disasters soars....