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Johannesburg, 27 October 2025 – South Africa’s removal from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list marks a defining moment for the country’s image, credibility, and economic trajectory. Beyond being a technical milestone, it reflects the resilience of South Africa’s institutions, its reform-driven leadership, and its reputation as a trusted, transparent, and globally competitive economy.

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Events

The 2025 Critical Skills Report: Informing Policy on South Africa's Talent Pool

Pharma

Africa carries a heavy health burden. It accounts for 25% of the global disease burden despite having only 18% of the global population.

Sport

Kenya's Geofry Toroitich Kipchumba and Ethiopian Aynalem Desta won the 50th edition of the Amsterdam Marathon, which took place on Sunday, October 19, in the city of Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands.

Electricity

The most-industrialized nation on the continent, South Africa relies on coal to generate the bulk of its electricity.

G20

African leaders will use next month’s G20 summit in Johannesburg to urge widespread debt relief to free overburdened countries from crushing international loan repayments.

Trade

With the future of the expired tariff-free trade act mired in uncertainty, US experts say there are other ways to boost US-Africa trade.

Investment

US policymakers must support the private sector’s push to strengthen African critical mineral supply chains by enabling American government bodies to take more equity stakes in African mining projects, said an influential Washington business lobby group.

Investment

US investment in a gas-to-energy plant at Saldanha is the Western Cape premier’s major proposal, with increased agricultural exports and boosts to tourism also on the agenda.