Risk Alerts
A list of items on the site. This page is only visible to Editors.
Military rule for South Africa?
11/02/2025
3 November 2025 – Why are South Africans supporting military rule? Could the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government fall? What is the impact of foot-and-mouth disease on South Africa’s economy? How did the US and China arrive at a trade truce?
The DA challenges race-based laws
10/26/2025
27 October 2025 – What makes the DA’s non-racial Economic Inclusion For All Bill significant? How does being removed from the FATF greylist help South Africa’s investment chances? What do falling bond yields tell us about the country’s economic prospects?
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?
How to add a Risk Alert
- Navigate to the Risk Alert section
- Add a new News Item from the menu on the left
- 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
- 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.
- Highlight each header and change those to a subtitle (lower case 'h' icon)
- Save the item
- 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)
- Go back to the Risk Alert and edit.
- In the HTML block under description, add the audio tag html content (shown below).
- Replace the code as indicated.
- On the right side options, be sure to add the Preview image. [Click here to save image]
- Save the item
- Publish the item when you're ready.
Working with multiple tabs open does make it easier to navigate around.
HTML for Audio Player (Replace bits in bold)
<audio controls style="width: 100%;">
<source src="/risk-alert/[short name of item]/[file name.mp3]/@@download/file/[file name.mp3]" type="audio/mpeg"></source>
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>