Open the payments system, don’t nationalise it
The Reserve Bank wants to open South Africa’s payment and cash systems to new competitors. Then it wants to own them.
News
Watch
Listen
Minister Ntshavheni, is BEE of national interest or ANC patronage networks’ interest?
Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni recently defended South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policy against the United States’ criticism. The Minister was responding to questions regarding how South Africa intends to overcome its diplomatic impasse with the United States.
Seeing Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma through dystopian French literature
In September 2015, not three weeks after Germany temporarily suspended the Dublin Regulation for Syrian asylum seekers that would eventually see between 890,000 and 1.1m people added to that country’s population, the English translation of the brilliant French writer Michel
How reliable an ally is the US?
Biased reporting underplays global shifts and the US’s core interests.
Don’t miss tomorrow’s IRR webinar on overcoming BEE’s failures
BEE is a barrier to growth, and finding a genuinely empowering alternative is vital. This is the thrust of the latest report from the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), Breaking the BEE Barrier to Growth. At tomorrow’s 10am online launch,
Fragility in US Financial Markets?
On the surface all is good. Growth is solid, the dollar strong. The economy is running at full employment, having matched a 1960s record with the jobless rate below 5% for 61 consecutive months. Despite a 40% rise in fuel
Pillay’s prize: monumental victory for law, human rights and rules-based order
At 85 years old, the eminent South African jurist represents the absolute pinnacle of legal integrity – a career forged in the crucible of the anti-apartheid struggle and elevated to the highest chambers of international justice. From defending anti-apartheid freedom
Pillay, peace and the prize
Navanethem “Navi” Pillay was at a conference in Courtroom 600 of Nuremberg’s Palace of Justice when it was announced that she had won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. The 85-year-old South African jurist told reporters that the last thing she
News Focus: UCT and free speech
A recommendation that Advocate Mark Oppenheimer be expelled from the Council of the University of Cape Town for remarks made last year in an interview with prominent international commentator Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and that fellow council member and CEO of