Another partnership, signifying nothing
The President wants credit for putting out fires his own government started, and applause for a partnership that has existed since before the Constitution.
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We need new permission structures to arrest municipal collapse
The following is based on an address I delivered last evening in a discussion,“Ballot or Build-It: How to Save Our Cities”, with DA mayoral candidate for Tshwane Cilliers Brink at the Free Market Foundation (FMF). The discussion was moderated by
Reform, trade and climate risks shape SA’s business outlook
South Africa’s stalled reform drive, the implications of Hakainde Hichilema’s re-election for SA-Zambia trade, and the country’s uneven exposure to a possible record El Niño feature in this latest edition of monthly highlights from research by the Centre for Risk
SA’s housing, title deeds backlogs should be declared human rights violations – IRR
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) says the scale of South Africa’s title deeds backlog and the slowing of government-subsidised housing provision has prompted it to approach the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to have these failures declared human rights
Can fixing local government fix our economy? | Terence Corrigan
Terence Corrigan and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the importance of fixing local government if we want to end our unemployment crisis and get South Africa working. Corrigan draws on his Daily Friend piece on Monday, How can municipalities get local economies
Africa’s demography: disaster or dividend?
There is no inevitability that Africa will reverse its poor development record. It will require the right politics to ensure that sound policy choices are made.
South Africa’s growth problem isn’t a story problem
Discovery CEO Adrian Gore’s latest statement on South Africa’s economy makes a case that has become all too familiar: driven by anaemic growth and structural unemployment, the country has spent a decade in societal crisis, but the tide has turned.
How true facts build false stories
Reading Marx and Engels through a modern foreword is a reminder that you don’t need falsehoods to distort history.
IRR webinar: will women voters be the deciding factor?
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will be releasing a major new polling report on Monday examining the political attitudes and party alignment of South African women, and the implications for the elections in November. With South Africa entering an