Look and learn: choking debt before it chokes you
Comparing two different polities, especially with different demographics, history and [...]
Mboweni and Ramaphosa, it’s time for action
This week’s medium-term budget policy statement (MTBPS) is the grimmest [...]
Tito may not have good news, but he won’t fly a false flag – we hope
South Africans desperately seeking some good news are unlikely to [...]
Veterans of long haul are not rattled by death notices
In the furies of social media, it is worth a [...]
SAA crashes while Ethiopian Airways soars, but Cyril just blathers on
On Monday in London – at separate venues – two [...]
SA is sliding down the road to ruin on the flat tyres of empowerment
About 15 years ago, in parliament, the Democratic Alliance spokesperson [...]
Instructive lessons for Eskom from British Leyland’s experience
There is a long, ever-lengthening, list of SA-originating business leaders [...]
Rap on the knuckles for the new nationalists
Usually, I am a sucker for middlebrow musicals of the Sound [...]
Power-crazed Mugabe’s path to longevity is well-hewed by dictators
Thomas More’s prescription sola mors tyrranicida est (“death is the only way [...]
The treasury wish list for boosting growth is right – extremely so
“Running out of Road” is the pertinently titled report by [...]
Justice Cameron sets high bar for successor in SA’s top court
In 1981, a young Roman law lecturer at the University [...]
Don’t cry for us: Argentina’s political nightmare is mirrored in SA
Big investor selloff; huge currency decline against the US dollar; [...]
Incisive analyses of grievance-based nationalism expose ANC’s folly
Three discrete encounters in Johannesburg recently reinforced the singular, stark [...]
‘Myopic Cyril can’t, or won’t, make the tough calls to prevent SA’s collapse
There is the famous story of the British admiral, Lord [...]
Cyril should be as ruthless as Boris with his enemies
Panned by his critics as a charlatan and a clown, [...]
Anti-truth Trump and bumbling Boris have nothing on SA’s shameless lot
In life the opposite of shame is shamelessness. In public [...]
Come on, Zindzi and Cyril, is it too much to ask for a little diplomacy?
Misery loves company, as the old saying goes. So however [...]
ANC shares Tories’ economy-hurting fixation on ideology
During an English heat wave, I recently escaped London to [...]
Corrosive fallout from buying into ruling-party myth
Binge-watching a top-rated TV series is a sure-fire way to [...]
Cyril’s grand plans and big bailouts won’t solve SA’s problems
SA’s longest-serving leader of the opposition, Sir de Villiers Graaff, [...]
Cyril’s fine words can’t hide his failure to save SA from Zuma gang
“Never make predictions, least of all about the future,” was [...]
Purge boosts the narrative that the era of impunity is over, but obstacles remain
“Confidence,” opined former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers, “is the [...]