G20: what will South Africa’s Presidency mean?
South Africa’s government takes its role on the global stage extremely seriously – in some ways, much more so than it does its domestic responsibilities
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Inequality – a crisis?
The latest G20 gathering is about to happen in Johannesburg and as part of that economics Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and co-authors published a report on global inequality. The authors consider inequality one of the most urgent and important global
Trans-sports
When I told Noah that I proposed to write about transsexuals a second time, he popped his clogs. “Stuck record” was one of his comments; “one-track mind” and “kicking people when they’re down” followed soon after. I reminded him that
Pandor is detrimental to the credibility of SA’s foreign policy
During her tenure as South Africa’s foreign minister, Naledi Pandor, the country faced a lack of trade and economic opportunities, neglected valuable and strategic alliances over outdated alliances, and continued to pursue ideological inconsistencies. Pandor has come to see herself
South Africans demand merit not race
In today's Daily Friend Show, Nicholas Lorimer, Hermann Pretorius, and John Endres discuss the results of the IRR’s latest polling on race relations, as well as the deflating G20 summit, parliament growing teeth, and the finance minister speaking on ratings
Don't let prestige media do to SA what the BBC has done to the UK
Whenever the BBC plunges itself into scandal, be it its own fact-checking division caught lying, or a hunky young intern waking up in a fire escape with his pants around his ankles having swallowed a pink cocktail handed to him
Oxfam doesn’t fight poverty; it fights wealth
The local chapter of British multinational lobby group Oxfam has released another dubious report to demonise wealth rather than alleviate poverty. Oxfam South Africa did a survey. It didn’t publish its report online. It sent the Africa Wealth Report 2025
Has South Africa turned the corner?
On today's show, Makone Maja and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the latest budget news. They also discuss the NPA and water problems in Limpopo. https://www.youtube.com/live/oKkGK5lA7_E?si=jlA2VPdzfe4VnRSr
The ultimate crunch issue in inquiries into Mkhwanazi complaints
Now that both the Madlanga Commission and the ad hoc committee of parliament have taken evidence from General Mkhwanazi concerning the complaints he aired at a dramatic media conference in Durban on 6 July this year, it is possible to