Africa’s demography: disaster or dividend?

There is no inevitability that Africa will reverse its poor development record. It will require the right politics to ensure that sound policy choices are made.

South Africa’s growth problem isn’t a story problem

Discovery CEO Adrian Gore’s latest statement on South Africa’s economy makes a case that has become all too familiar: driven by anaemic growth and structural unemployment, the country has spent a decade in societal crisis, but the tide has turned.

How true facts build false stories

Reading Marx and Engels through a modern foreword is a reminder that you don’t need falsehoods to distort history.

IRR webinar: will women voters be the deciding factor?

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will be releasing a major new polling report on Monday examining the political attitudes and party alignment of South African women, and the implications for the elections in November. With South Africa entering an

What US Democrats could learn from the DA

MAGA has offered voters the most persuasive case against radicalism in living memory. Some left-wingers are determined to fight fire with fire.

Mkhwanazi’s questions about policing require answers – IRR

SAPS KwaZulu-Natal provincial commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s questioning whether South Africa needs a single “entity” to control policing deserves attention from parliamentarians, the Minister of Police and the South African Police Service. So says the Institute of Race Relations (IRR).

The pot and the kettle

ANC can't even select its mayoral candidates

Nicholas Lorimer and Hermann Pretorius discuss the ANC’s failure to launch its candidates, its manifesto launch, and the JRA’s asphalt plant not operating. Follow The Daily Friend channel on WhatsApp: WhatsApp channel https://youtu.be/wQ4YMzv6u3w