South Africa’s hidden tax: why crime is now a line item
Every business operating in South Africa already pays a tax that never appears on a South African Revenue Service assessment.
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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.
A cancer breakthrough and the second coming of mRNA
There can be few technologies in modern history that have travelled so quickly from scientific triumph to political tribalism as mRNA.
The Yookay discovers rape is not ok
There was a bizarre story three years ago about a man who had a nasty accident.
Failure to meet “progressive realisation” of property rights key to IRR’s approach to SAHRC
Accountability, efficient service delivery and secure property rights for all South Africans are the principles on which the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has approached the South Africa Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to declare title deed and housing delivery backlogs
Reforming wasteful “free” university education
The high costs of “free” university education include dismal student completion and drop-out rates, a steady rise in student debt, and major inefficiency and corruption at the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) charged with paying tuition fees and allowances
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