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This week’s local elections will test the ANC-DA partnership that holds the national government together, and foreign bond investors have already shown how fast they can leave.
South African bonds rallied on Wednesday, 22 October 2026, after the government unveiled plans to cut weekly fixed-rate bond auctions and launch a bond buyback programme, while the rand was little changed following the announcement of two months of fuel-price relief.
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana indicated that government will reconsider its proposed rules for moving crypto assets across the country’s borders. This should bring considerable relief to South Africa’s digital assets sector, writes Wiehann Olivier of Forvis Mazars.
Sold as the "bruin droomstad" by the Apartheid government, Atlantis in the Western Cape has seen significant changes since 1994, including the construction of a factory that produces 1 million televisions and 500,000 fridges every year.