South Africa: Government, Public Sector

South Africa has received sovereign credit rating upgrades from both Fitch and S&P Global in 2025-2026, marking the country's first upgrades in nearly 21 years.

Africa's mineral wealth positions it at the center of the global energy transition, yet the continent captures only a fraction of the value from its resources.

South Africa's latest investment announcements have put the country back into the conversation for international investors. With record commitments across energy, infrastructure, manufacturing...

Passing a climate law is no guarantee that constitutional enforcement will be the most direct route to accountability.

The Competition Appeal Court has set aside a Competition Tribunal decision delivered more than six years after the hearing concluded, finding that the delay and fragmented adjudicative process compromised the legality and fairness of the outcome. The judgment establishes that administrative bodies must maintain expeditious, coherent processes anchored in evidence, with decisions properly connected to the panels that heard the matter.

A South African court has ruled that the International Air Services Council cannot impose race-based B-BBEE requirements on airlines applying for international route licenses.

South Africa's proposed Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorism Financing Amendment Bill introduces sweeping changes to beneficial ownership compliance, including new discrepancy reporting obligations...

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the international anti-money laundering watchdog, removed South Africa from its ‘grey list' of countries following a successful on-site review of its Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) regime in July.

​​In line with South Africa's attempts to get off the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) greylist, the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) issued the Revised Guidance Note 7A (revised GN 7A) on 1 September 2025.

South Africa's rail reform has reached a critical juncture as the Transnet Rail Infrastructure Manager concludes binding Rail Access Agreements with all 11 newly allocated Train Operating Companies, marking the transition...

The KwaZulu-Natal High Court examined whether public transport contracts that had been extended repeatedly without competitive bidding violated constitutional procurement requirements.

The Democratic Republic of Congo continues to attract growing interest from sponsors, lenders and development finance institutions in the energy and infrastructure sectors.