Creative Destruction: America’s Losers and Winners
Joseph Schumpeter in 1942 coined the term creative destruction where innovation renders old economic models obsolete. Technology marches on. Embrace the new or die.
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Litigation financing needs more transparency
The ongoing legal battle between financier Errol Elsdon and Nkosana Makate over the funding of the “Please Call Me” litigation raises crucial questions about the state of litigation financing in South Africa.
News Focus: property rights and women
They may have paid for, occupied, and maintained properties for years, but many of the country’s poorest and most vulnerable women remain exposed to the administrative failure that is the government’s longstanding and unaddressed title-deed backlog.
Date of local government election announced! Start the campaign clock
Today’s Daily Friend Live features Nicholas Lorimer and Ricardo Teixeira. They discuss the looming local government elections, the MK Party’s latest power struggle, and the arrest of Julius Mkhwanazi. https://youtube.com/live/LRSafIkjuDE?feature=share
Whose family, whose values?
An anti-gay, anti-sex-ed conference supported by the American religious right is coming to Cape Town next year. It will be as awful as you’d imagine.
Let’s get over our Africa fatigue and be courageous Africans instead
A week ago today, I flew to Accra, capital of Ghana, with colleague Hermann Pretorius, head of Strategic Communications at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), to attend Atlas Network’s 2026 Africa Liberty Forum, and present a case study of
I love democracy
I love democracy. I love the excitement and energy of election day, the lines at the polling station, the feel of the pen in my hand as I mark the ballot, the counting of the ballots. The fun doesn't end there; I love the sleepless nights as
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‘We thought we liked this new way we were, these new deregulated humans, fearful of nothing. But I think we have deluded ourselves. We have filled our boots, and deluded ourselves’.
AfriForum is clearly right about political interference in school sports
I sometimes have to pinch myself and remember that in 2026 there are still South Africans who have somehow missed that state race regulation remains a living part of our public life. The persistence of this denialism speaks to the difficulty of meaningful reform, as we are not