A long game awaits Iran
President Donald Trump’s deal with Iran has severely damaged his administration. Even though it is highly unlikely that the deal will be fully implemented, Trump
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Why Musk’s trillionaire status is unmerited
Reams have been written about Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire. Most of it is wrong or besides the point.
Hill-Lewis shows his hand
Geordin Hill-Lewis’s reshuffle of the DA’s GNU team is the clearest sign yet that he understands an uncomfortable truth about party leadership: government appointments are valuable instruments of political party management.
Diamonds are forever, SA diamond mining may not be
So long, South African diamond mining industry … you served us well, but the toll of extraction by BEE-centred officialdom is leading to your demise.
SA needs single independent entity to hunt down the corrupt
The Madlanga Commission and the related parliamentary ad hoc committee are nearing completion: what should emerge?
South Africa could be a mining superpower—Why isn't it? | Interview with James Lorimer
Nicholas Lorimer interviews DA Shadow Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources James Lorimer (disclaimer: his father) about South Africa’s mineral wealth and mining industry. https://youtu.be/edmQYtNgPEM?si=6BwqWH1gHyYelb6S
“Opportunities” for SA’s youth, in 1976 and in 2026
I began writing this last Tuesday, 16 June, nominally “Youth Day”, but in South Africa’s political lexicon, the commemoration of the 1976 Soweto students’ uprising. We South Africans have an odd attachment to dates like these and the events they
No sacred allies: South Africa in a transactional decade
On 18 June US vice president, JD Vance told reporters Donald Trump is “the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this point in time.” He then warned Israel’s cabinet against attacking “the only powerful
Will Cyril go to jail? Will Groenewald be president? Is the GNU cooked?
The Phala Phala impeachment process, the DA cabinet scramble and the upcoming election have all raised the temperature in the SA political pan. Voters are speculating, pundits are placing bets, and podcasters add some flavour.