

ANC withdraws VAT increase
- By Daily Friend
- . Apr 24, 2025
Terence Corrigan and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the decision by the finance minister to withdraw the VAT increase.

Everyone's crowing
- By David Doubell
- . Apr 24, 2025

The Man Who Should Be President
- By Greg Mills
- . Apr 24, 2025

Are we living in a BANI country?
- By Paul Hoffman
- . Apr 24, 2025

Alcohol consumption is now declining
- By Staff Writer
- . Apr 24, 2025

South Africa is best for home ownership
- By Staff Writer
- . Apr 24, 2025

Harvard fights back against Trump administration’s “overreach”
- By Staff Writer
- . Apr 24, 2025



Why Ramaphosa may not make it to the finish line
- By Daniel Eloff
- . Apr 24, 2025
Section 88(2) of the Constitution provides that no person may hold office as President for more than two terms. But in the three decades since South Africa’s democratic dawn, barring Nelson Mandela, no ANC leader has managed to complete their

EFF suggests “Apartheid tax”
- By Daily Friend
- . Apr 23, 2025
Nicholas Lorimer and Makone Maja discuss the EFF’s alternative to the VAT increase. They also discuss the payment of funds to the taxi industry and the IMF growth forecasts for South Africa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WGU9ckGYAU

Racial Quotas: A path to job losses and slow growth
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Apr 23, 2025
In a display of ethnic nationalism and faith in central planning, the government released its new racial workforce quotas for private companies last week. Since 1994 the ANC has strived to allocate government jobs along the racial lines of the

Meanwhile in the land of AI − vendettas, firehoses, and the race for geopolitical immortality
- By Steven Boykey Sidley
- . Apr 23, 2025
The volume of political news over the past few months has been deafening. Mainly coming out of the US, of course, but everywhere else too. Trying to make sense of it has been a little overwhelming, even for those who

A solution to the ActionSA conundrum
- By Donald Brown
- . Apr 23, 2025
Arguably one of the most confusing moments in South African political history occurred when ActionSA unexpectedly supported the adoption of the fiscal framework within the national budget. For a party that has built its reputation on being Anti-ANC and holding

Tripling down on BEE
- By Daily Friend
- . Apr 22, 2025
Nicholas Lorimer and Chris Hattingh discuss the ANC tripling down on BEE and how some in the ANC are worried about kicking the DA out of the GNU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlq_CrjQAxY

VAT Man
- By David Doubell
- . Apr 22, 2025

The unintended consequence of tariffs: economic education
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Apr 22, 2025
An enlightening consequence of President Trump’s aggressive tariff campaign is that more people are learning about tariffs and free trade. Don Trump, the boss of the America First syndicate and the self-declared “Tariff Man”, has given many different reasons why