Crude errors: the government’s flawed strategic fuel reserve plan
Two key events in the past week put Gulf oil supplies at increased risk and helped push the price of Brent crude back above $100 a barrel. The first was Saudi Arabia’s decision to shut down its East-West crude pipeline
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Kneeling before narcissists
It's been a good few weeks for pro-Palestine supporters, starting with a murder in New York.
The cost of non-non-alignment
Africa is a net food importer despite holding around two-thirds of the world's uncultivated arable land. As the number of Africans increases annually, so too does the money spent on agricultural imports, driven up by logistics costs, inefficiencies and now,
Never trust an industry that begs to be regulated
AI frontier labs are raising the alarm that their models could end humanity, and ought to be restricted by the state. Weird.
ANC candidate lists in chaos: Fikile says it's the enemy within
Michael Morris and Nicholas Lorimer discuss an internal ANC report on how the ANC failed to submit its candidate lists to the IEC on time. They also discuss the battle between the Minister and the DG in the Department of
Thank God I'm alive today
Over the last week I have been playing around with a fun AI tool called "Any Human Ever" . When you click the button on the site, it generates a random imaginary human life, based on statistical probability. Over the entirety of human existence, it is
Preserving the IDAC in any way would be a mistake
Many admirable sentiments are expressed in the DM opinion piece penned by Xola Nqola, an ANC MP, who is chair of the justice portfolio committee in the National Assembly. However, he misses the mark by a country mile; here’s why.
March and Braai: The strange loops of South African history
The first thing I thought of when I heard that AfriForum and March and March were collaborating was Piet Retief and Dingaan trying to broker a deal on a precarious cliff called Vulture’s Hill (Aasvoelkop) after a festivity took a