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Operating globally, the Black Feminist Fund is challenging traditional donor models. We unpack how flexible core funding and participatory grantmaking shift capital and long-term institutional power directly to grassroots movements.

With local municipalities facing growing debt and service delivery bottlenecks, municipal strategist Miyelani Holeni breaks down the fiscal realities confronting local governments, highlighting key operational risks and the urgent structural reforms needed to drive local economic stability.

Charlton Murove, Head of Research at the Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF), unpacks the financial squeeze facing South Africa’s private healthcare sector, where surging payouts for high-cost treatments threaten scheme solvency, and details the BHF’s proposal for an industry-wide risk-sharing pool to curb runaway medical aid contribution hikes.

Econometrix Chief Economist Dr. Azar Jammine analyzes the economic implications of shifting US political dynamics and President Ramaphosa’s renewed optimism for bilateral relations. He unpacks what a potential diplomatic reset means for foreign direct investment, currency stability, and how South Africa must navigate international trade partnerships to protect long-term growth.

Political economist Duma Gqubule and Momentum Investments Chief Economist Sanisha Packirisamy break down the severe economic consequences of South Africa’s local government crisis. Together, they analyze how failing municipal infrastructure, collapsing fixed investment, and systemic local fiscal risks directly drag down national GDP, threaten sovereign ratings, and shape the country's…