When Great Powers escalate: Africa’s shrinking room for strategic ambiguity
Distance is often assumed to soften the impact of conflict. When tensions rise between major powers, attention focuses on where fighting might occur and who
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Surviving in an institution – a banking one
Dee Positano is staying with us. I am pleased. I like her even though she is a banker. Some bankers can be nice. Would I like her more if she weren’t a banker? I can’t say, and neither can Grok.
Tshwane’s R1bn back-pay wage bill
In this episode, Anlu Keeve, Dr John Endres, and Chris Patterson discuss the President's response to the SONA debate in Parliament, Tshwane's back-pay wage bill, and the unfolding issue of students gambling away their NSFAS allowances. https://www.youtube.com/live/6OzN8CYqTlo?si=tfDLxEYSAC14Wmui
Why is racism bad?
Allow me to butt into the conversation on whether racism is bad by offering a reason why it is always bad. Garth Zietsman recently wrote a column entitled Why is racism bad? in which he gives some circumstances in which
Make South Africa less England about Israel
Toward the end of last year, something unusual started happening in London. At pro-Gaza marches, already a weekly fixture in the professional protester’s calendar, the Metropolitan police began arresting people, and not just any people, but specifically white, elderly, middle-class
The George-to-Knysna railtrack: is the solution, at last, within sight?
On Monday 9 February I was informed that a committee intimately involved with promoting cycling said it would not support my request to Parliament for a review of the 25-year concession granted by Transnet Freight Rail to a consortium to
To BEE or not to BEE
Hermann Pretorius and Anlu Keeve discuss BMG's latest report on BEE, the water tanker mafia in Johannesburg, and the IRR's latest submissions to the National Treasury on the upcoming budget. https://www.youtube.com/live/n0__C0qF71s?si=MjvOU41QDaB_eSLS
Efficiency-‘capitalism’ is hurting liberalism’s greatest gift to the world
Free market capitalism is a superpower wielded in the hands of those societies that opted-in early and those late to the party. It is unlike anything that came before in hundreds of thousands of years of human development. But a
“Linked to” does not mean what you think it means
Earlier this year, South Africans were again presented with crime data showing that certain interventions were “linked to” reductions in violent crime. Depending on where you sit politically, that phrase either confirmed what you already believed or sounded like spin.