Emerging stocks reclaim pre-war peak on Hormuz deal hopes, AI expectations
South African markets were closed on Monday due to the Freedom Day public holiday.
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Ramaphosa calls for ‘real change’ as SA marks 32 years of democracy
South Africa’s democracy must be measured by its ability to improve people’s daily lives, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday as the country marked 32 years since its first democratic elections. Delivering the Freedom Day address in Bloemfontein, Ramaphosa said the promise of freedom must be reflected in “material change in people’s lives”. Dignity depended…
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Freedom demands more: Making “good trouble” in a world adrift
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” I invoke these words of radical revolutionary and iconic statesman, our Foundation’s revered namesake, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to ground what is an undeniably difficult and deeply unsettling moment in…
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SA marks 32 years of democracy amid deep inequality and joblessness
South Africa’s democracy will, on Monday, mark 32 years since the country’s first democratic election, which ended apartheid rule and ushered in a constitutional order built on promises of equality, freedom and rights for marginalised communities, alongside the rule of law. Since 1994, the Constitution has entrenched a wide-ranging set of civil, political and socio-economic…
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The sound of freedom is not silence
When we left Tembisa last year, we thought we were leaving more than just a place. We thought we were stepping into something lighter, something safer, something closer to what people call freedom. But freedom, it turns out, is not always a clean break. Sometimes it follows you, sits beside you in the silence, asks…