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Should governments pay businesses for climate disasters? Researchers unpack huge lawsuits in South Africa

The most catastrophic natural disaster ever recorded in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province – also the worst flood in South Africa for more than a century – has sparked two major lawsuits by insurance companies whose business clients suffered massive flood damage.

The Conversation · Aug 31, 2025

S.Africa's Ex-transport Bosses Charged Over Zuma-era Graft Case

Four former executives at South Africa's failing transport company were arrested and charged Monday over allegations of corruption worth millions of dollars in a high-profile case linked to the plunder of state resources.

International Business Times · Jun 30, 2025

African Development Bank approves $1B loan to South Africa's state-owned rail and ports company

The African Development Bank says it has approved a $1 billion loan to South Africa’s state-owned rail and ports company, Transnet

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2024

Repairs to S.African commodities export line delayed by violence

South African state-owned freight rail company Transnet said on Friday that repairs to a commodities export line had been significantly delayed by violence.

Reuters · Nov 11, 2022

South Africa’s rail, port workers to strike over wages

Workers at the state-owned firm will go on strike from Thursday over wage disputes as living costs soar in South Africa.

Al Jazeera · Oct 4, 2022

S.Africa's rail and port workers to strike this week over wages - unions

Workers at South Africa's state-owned logistics firm Transnet will go on strike starting this Thursday over a wage dispute, two labour unions said, in a move that could halt the export of key minerals and other cargo.

Reuters · Oct 4, 2022

Five things South Africa must do to combat cybercrime

Cyber-attacks are on the rise globally, with seriously negative implications for countries’ strategic, national, economic and social well-being.

The Conversation · Sep 5, 2022

PHOTOS: South Africa's 'train of hope' is a godsend for millions. But new threats loom

Dubbed the "train of hope," the Phelophepa has brought health care to millions of South Africans. But it's facing an unprecedented spree of theft and vandalism on the country's railways.

WEKU · Jul 9, 2022

South Africa's state capture commission nears its end after four years. Was it worth it?

South Africa’s judicial commission into state capture, known as the Zondo Commission, recently handed over the fourth part of its voluminous and scathing findings to President Cyril Ramaphosa. As a fact-finding commission, it had to determine if there were facts that were relevant for prosecutorial purposes related to “state capture”…

The Conversation · May 13, 2022

State capture in South Africa: how the rot set in and how the project was rumbled

It seems the time of reckoning for the massive corruption that has hobbled South Africa’s economy is nigh. Two parts of the three-part report by the judicial commission investigating allegations of state capture under former President Jacob Zuma have now been published. The third is due at the end of…

The Conversation · Feb 8, 2022