NWU Business School

Medium-Term Budget builds confidence amid economic headwinds

Prof. Raymond Parsons

The 2026 Medium-Term Budget is a realistic, positive and credible approach to a still challenging economic and fiscal situation given the changed global and domestic economic circumstances since the beginning of 2026.

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Student wins national innovation award for turning mining waste into bricks

The North-West University (NWU) continues to demonstrate how business education, innovation and entrepreneurial thinking can contribute to solving real-world challenges, with one of its students earning national recognition for turning mining waste into a potential resource for sustainable construction.

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AI and the changing role of the university

When AI can produce a convincing answer in seconds, what does a university qualification actually certify? Prof. Joseph Sekhampu examines why judgement must become central to a graduate’s value.Universities produce the research, but AI increasingly controls how the public encounters it. What happens when platforms acquire power over knowledge…

When a country starts rationing its future

South Africa’s growing scrutiny of foreign academics may deliver quicker gains in representation while weakening the expertise needed to develop the country’s next generation of scholars.

Localisation determines who occupies existing opportunities. Development determines how many…

GDP setback highlights vulnerabilities in economic recovery

The negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth figures of -0,2% for the second quarter of 2026 confirm the bad knock the South African economy – together with many other economies – took as a result of the recent global energy shock. StatsSA released the latest figures on 8 September.

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South Africa’s gender gap begins before the first payslip

Labour-market figures draw attention to a much larger group of women who are less visible in the transformation debate: those who have not entered sustained employment at all.

By Dr Lungile Ntsizwane, MBA programme leader and senior lecturer at the North-West University (NWU) Business…

July inflation figures offer welcome relief for consumers and business

The better-than-expected July figure for the consumer price index (CPI) is good news on the inflation front for business and consumers and helps to stabilise medium-term expectations.

In commenting on the CPI figures for July, Prof. Raymond Parsons, economist from the North-West…

What South Africa’s latest unemployment figures mean for a generation still waiting

Millions of young South Africans will vote in November without ever having held stable employment.

Persistent unemployment is delaying the point at which an entire generation can become economically independent.

Starting a career ten years…

South Africa is running out of political enemies

"The real divide in South African politics may no longer be between left and right, liberation and opposition, or even government and opposition. It may increasingly be between those who continue searching for political enemies and those prepared to confront structural constraints that have no face, no party and no obvious villain."

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