Auto Investment in the US Steers South
German luxury car maker Audi will spend $4 billion to build its first US production facility near Macon, Georgia. The facility will be able to build 200,000 cars per year and will create 4,500 high paying jobs. Audi’s plant will be
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Cricket at your Perryl
My cousin Peregrine, a cricket fanatic, is visiting us. Well, not us, exactly. Out from England to watch the current Australian tour, he is unabashedly bumming on us. “Wandaful to be with you, ha! ha!” he cries, the soul of
The ANC is looking depressed
In today’s livestream, John Endres and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the local government elections and illegal mining. https://youtube.com/live/PMNr4hRlMQc?feature=share
Thank Beijing for your cheap electric car
The EU’s new ambassador wants South Africa to tax Chinese electric vehicles, to shield us from unfair competition. It isn’t South Africans he wants to shield.
Confronting the limits of Israeli democracy
Consider the arithmetic of a hypothetical in which Israel, the West Bank and Gaza become a single democratic state, with universal adult suffrage and Israel’s existing proportional electoral system. The political dilemma confronting the Israeli right is not difficult to
The sheer confusion of the UK's position on the Middle East
Not in your wildest dreams could you have imagined, three years ago, that one day the United Kingdom would occupy the bizarre position it currently does on the Palestine Israel situation. The narrative is incomparable, changing hourly from scolding to
Why school vouchers are part of the EED alternative to BEE
With growth in South Africa at around 1% of GDP (compared to 4.5% elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa) and the unemployment rate at close on 34% (against a global average of 5%), the need to remove the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE)
Federalism and devolution in the 2026 local government elections
South Africa has a formally federal Constitution and an increasingly robust and thriving community federalist scene at grassroots level. With the local government elections taking place next week on 4 November, it might be useful to survey some of the
Helen Zille, a generational talent in South African politics
Politics is hard, it is a brutal business. A zero-sum game, win or lose; rise or fall. These are the stakes at play in every juncture. It can create distrust, sow discontent, play on people’s fears and bring out the