PETER BRUCE: Even a tired Trump won’t let SA’s trade surplus with US slide

President will find rich pickings in steel and aluminium, automobiles, meat and food

STUART THEOBALD: Not a bad time to be risk averse

Fears are growing across global markets, but the right inflection point has not yet come

JOHN DLUDLU: A time for the president to stiffen his spine

Powerful as it is, it’s in America’s self-interest that it maintains cordial relations with SA

JABULANI SIKHAKHANE: Did government think before it poked Israeli bear?

Foreign policy framework requires it to consider all possible effects, implications and blowbacks

MAMOKETE LIJANE: Brace for further US trade curbs and loss of Agoa access

The rand has been stable, but won’t be as well supported when US and global growth concerns raise their ugly heads

MICHAEL AVERY: Gold and PGMs at a crossroads

While the bullion is already expensive, the most hated metals now might be the most mispriced

NEWS FROM THE FUTURE: King coal carries on

With oil and gas used as weapons in trade wars, fossil fuel has a chance to flourish

JONATHAN COOK: ‘Make everyone great again’ as a management philosophy

Managing by grace is more than just a magical management method, it’s a wonderful way of being human

TOM EATON: Give me your tired, your poor … or just send me white South Africans

News of many Afrikaners’ reluctance to join Donald Trump’s ‘Groot Drek’ is unlikely to reach US

IAN BREMMER: Trump 2.0 will slow, not kill, the global energy transition

The economic and technological forces driving the clean energy revolution have simply become too powerful to stop

SHAWN HAGEDORN: SA needs to rely more on US trade than aid

To mitigate our youth unemployment crisis,  school leavers should be digitally integrating into supply chains feeding the US’s import flows

NEIL MANTHORP: Bedingham did right thing in making Test cricket dream come true

Cricketer risked playing two Tests in New Zealand and could now play in the final of the World Test Championship

TIISETSO MOTSOENENG: A painful reminder of racial hierarchies still at work

Trump’s decision to cut off aid to SA, framed under the misleading guise of protecting the rights of supposedly under-siege white Afrikaners, is a grotesque ...

MICHAEL MORRIS: Transformation Fund will fall short of helping black-owned businesses

How can a business enterprise be a business enterprise if it’s funded by the government?

ZIYANDA STUURMAN: Improving SA’s partnerships in Africa more important than ever

Ties need to be strengthened as mining and export capabilities could fall behind those of regional partners