Value for MONEY isn’t a favour, it’s a right
Hermann Pretorius and Nicholas Lorimer discuss Value for Money, healthcare corruption, and their effects on ordinary people.
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Why killing Khamenei was justified
For too long, incremental pressure on Tehran failed to change its conduct at home and abroad. The recent strikes that killed Ayatollah Khamenei were not lawless or reckless. They were justified.
A GNU divided against itself can stand
Nicholas Lorimer and Michael Morris discuss how a competitive GNU is better than a cozy one. They also chat about the larger ramifications of the water crisis, and the uncertainty of war. https://www.youtube.com/live/N97OrsPowzA?si=cuHRn6QOwqpVnHq2
The water crisis is a turning point
Dry taps, sometimes lasting for days (or weeks or months) are now a fact of life for many South Africans.
A reading on political foolishness
What is it that turns intelligent people into slogan-chanting devotees of anti-political, anti-scientific, anti-factual populism?
The threat to SA’s biggest industry
Could South Africa lose its motor industry, its biggest manufacturer, and half a million jobs? Could SA repeat the sad experience of Australia, which lost its car industry a decade ago?
The good old boys don’t drink whiskey and rye anymore
I stopped drinking seven years ago. I sometimes wonder whether that was a mistake.
Paradoxical materialism
“The stinking rich will always be with us,” I said. “It’s in the Bible.”
Incentives and municipal failure: why local government needs a structural reset
Like a lot of things that have gone wrong in South Africa, municipal decline is one that can be squarely put down to a problem of incentives.