It is the economics, damn stupid!
Job creation through green economics will only work bottom-up, says Andile Ncontsa… A sustainable world…
FOCUS ON EDUCATION
Focus on Education. The latest edition of Focus, the journal of the Helen Suzman…
Our play-play army
If South Africa is serious about protecting its growing business interests on the continent, while…
Burying Mandela
Burying Mandela It won’t be long before South Africa buries its democracy’s founding father, Nelson…
Let’s face facts Africa wakes up
Just as European countries tear into each other over dodgy banking systems and a wonky…
SAPS winning our war
Just as they are winning the war on crime, bemused police have their own crimes…
Give the poor some credit
As the cabinet considers asking Parliament to grant a new amnesty to people with bad…
Open letter to Wits
OPEN LETTER TO A UNIVERSITY I LOVE, OF WHICH I HAVE VERY HIGH EXPECTATIONS Dear…
Vavi’s comeuppance
It is comforting to boil political developments in SA down to simple ANC factional politics….
Free biscuits and gender violence
The minister of women, Lulu Xingwana, failed to turn up for a crucial gender debate…
A nation of shopkeepers
“Forget about old-style corporate ladders to success. South Africans need to be entrepreneurs and have…
Oxfam, porky pies, & white lies
Oxford’s old committee for famine relief, Oxfam, has been telling porky pies about us. Last…
Taxed to death, SA works informally
Reaganomics, the idea that cutting taxes frees up so much cash that economic expansion and…
Working against jobs
Working nine-to-five might be “no way to make a living” goes the old ditty, but…
We’re all getting richer
Last month, finance minister Pravin Gordhan announced a downgrading of SA’s gross domestic product (GDP)…
Goodnight to Aids
Golly, that was a close shave! Just as we should have watched a holocaust of…
Religion on the up
Some things are so ingrained that we’d be astonished if they disappeared. For South Africans,…
Celebrate the miners
For a country whose industrialisation started with mining, we seem carefree at that sector’s demise….
Income inequality disappearing
This past weekend saw President Jacob Zuma announce that we are to see “decisive action…
Back to feudalism
There’s never been a good time to be an African, in a rural setting, and…
Employment and the joy of youth
This is the time of year when youngsters finishing their schooling ponder a future that…
Schooling gets better
Like Russians under communism, South Africans turn to dark humour to describe “transformation” of our…
Take the long view
What is it that makes us South Africans see things in extremes? At one end,…
Our homes, our castles
The late former interior minister Connie Mulder must be spinning like a top. In 1970…