Expanding intra-Brics trade ties is vital for South Africa's agricultural sector

Your political and economic calendar for the days to come

The gathering of the Brics foreign ministers in New Delhi last week was an exercise in irrelevance

Hint: it will require more diplomatic hard work and a shift in allegiances away from the Brics towards the G20 bloc

The G20 event was marked most by US and Chinese absentia. These absences send a message – that South Africa is ignorable, despite the pomp.

The lesson from Brazil’s Embraer is simple: industrial innovation begins in the classroom and survives only when competence outranks politics

Trump’s new 30% tariff threat has elicited very little market response. Is it because he has a reputation for chickening out?