Stephen Grootes closes coverage from The World Economic Forum on Africa

World Economic Forum looks back on the meeting on Africa

Vanessa Moungar. Community Lead, Regional Strategies chats to Redi about what has been discussed and achieved.

Mastercard release Cost of Cash for Consumers in SA Study

  It has been well documented that the persistence of cash usage comes with material costs to society that range from lost tax revenue and direct cash handling costs to significant adverse impacts to financial inclusion. In addition, cash is the mainstay of the “shadow economy” and its attendant i…

Stephen reports on Cyril Ramaphosa's closing address at WEF

Stephen Grootes says Cyrils's speech was a call to action... that we know what to do from here. To move past from "half baked solutions".

Achieving inclusive growth with technology

Stephen Grootes reports on his chat to the Telecommunications Minister about the digitisation of TV going forward, and overviews Team SA's impact at WEF Africa 2017.

Stephen laments a star studded, yet controversial WEF event

Presidents Robert Mugabe and Jacob Zuma were at WEF Africa this morning. Later in the day Eskom Chair Dr Ben Ngubane seemed very unfair with Trevor Manuel's comments.

Ben Ngubane's reaction to Trevor Manuel's comments about Eskom

Stephen reports back on his chat to Eskom board chairperson, Dr Ben Ngubane at the World Economic Forum on Africa.

Gordhan still man of moment for WEF

Stephen Grootes tells Xolani Gwala that Pravin Gordhan is expected at WEF Africa.

WEF Africa needs more Finance Minister Gigaba and less Instagram Gigaba

Stephen Grootes, EWN Senior Reporter and Midday Report Host talks about the opening on WEF Africa.

WEF should include ordinary people - Oxfam

Thembinkosi Dlamini of Oxfam tells Xolani Gwala that the World Economic Forum (WEF) should include people affected by issues governments hope to tackle.