Risk Alerts

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SA's falling GDP per capita

10/19/2025

20 October 2025 — Will the standard of living in South Africa improve? Is South Africa a lawless country? Which way are the political winds are blowing? Why is the Department of Health targeting medical tax credits?

SA's falling GDP per capita

Same old: the ANC’s “new” economic action plan

10/12/2025

13 October 2025 — Will the ANC’s "new" economic action plan turn SA’s fortunes around? Why are SA companies holding such large cash reserves? What is SA’s role in the World Bank’s growth forecast for sub-Saharan Africa? What do the stats say about SA’s financially best-run municipalities? Why is the US dollar weakening? What lies behind the latest escalation in US-China trade relations?

Same old: the ANC’s “new” economic action plan

Policy uncertainty hits new high

10/05/2025

6 October 2025 — Why is policy uncertainty at a new high point? Why is political survival becoming the most important issue for the ANC? Is BEE policy on the verge of a fundamental change? Can the EFF survive Malema’s guilty verdict? How have markets reacted to the US government shutdown?

Policy uncertainty hits new high

How to add a Risk Alert

  1. Navigate to the Risk Alert section
  2. Add a new News Item from the menu on the left
  3. In the news item
    • Use the first section's title as the name of the Risk Alert
    • Add a Description block. The description should be prefixed with the date.
    • Add an Introduction block with the the following text: "Welcome to the weekly Risk Alert from the Centre for Risk Analysis — [Date]"
    • Add an HTML block
  4. Paste the rest of the Risk Alert in the block under the HTML block. Each paragraph in the document you paste from will create a new text block.
  5. Highlight each header and change those to a subtitle (lower case 'h' icon)
  6. Save the item
  7. From the Risk Alert you are in add a new File. Select the mp3 you want to add, and save.
    • Copy the short name of the file (xxx.mp3)
  8. Go back to the Risk Alert and edit.
  9. In the HTML block under description, add the audio tag html content (shown below).
    • Replace the code as indicated.
  10. On the right side options, be sure to add the Preview image. [Click here to save image]
  11. Save the item
  12. Publish the item when you're ready.

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HTML for Audio Player (Replace bits in bold)

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