One private security officer per 91 citizens: what that number tells you

Every year, South Africans absorb another batch of crime statistics, shake their heads, and move on.

The ANC’s quandary over municipal debt

Municipalities across the country owe Eskom a very large and fast-growing amount. The ANC will have to come up with an urgent solution to this vast black hole in the country’s finances ahead of the local government elections.

Keeping track of Transnet, political risks, and what now for Mr Phala Phala?

This is the first of a new monthly feature in which I will be highlighting some of the latest research by the Centre for Risk Analysis (CRA) on political, economic and geopolitical events affecting South African businesses.

Joburg seeks to hire even more managers

Makone Maja and Nicholas Lorimer discuss Johannesburg's hiring more staff despite being unable to afford it, as the city loses control over its own finances. They also discuss a court defeat for Minister John Steenhuisen and the Department of Agriculture.

On a roll

The permission slip problem

The Constitutional Court, at long last, struck down the “certificate of need” provisions of the National Health Act.

ANC mayor fail

Nicholas Lorimer and Terence Corrigan discuss the struggles of the ANC to find a mayoral candidate for Joburg. They also ask if the anti-foreigner movement is real or manufactured. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dy53tGH2hM

Bar cannot deny race is part of its admissions policy

In a constitutional democracy founded on non-racialism, the legal profession should be able to say something simpler and stronger: no applicant will be discriminated against because of their race.