Understanding the ANC voter
Most people agree that ANC voters effectively control SA’s future. It is comforting to be reminded that citizens are not powerless; they are de facto
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Birds that are feather-brained flock together …
Noah and I are lunching together. His brow is furrowed and his eyes are narrowed. I know this expression well. It is a lover troubled by a thought. A one-liner floats into my mind. It is the one about the
News Focus: limiting citizenship to loyalists would flout Constitution
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has condemned the proposal by Supra Mahumapelo, chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation, that legislation be introduced to allow the state to strip South Africans of their citizenship for spreading
We are not “frontiersmen”
AfriForum’s Ernst van Zyl claims to welcome the Free Market Foundation’s “embrace of a frontiersmen mindset”. That’s exactly the problem. In response to my dismay at the Free Market Foundation’s mission to the United States in support of Solidarity and
In helping Ukraine, we protect ourselves
We have just returned from a ten-day visit to Ukraine, with meetings in Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro. We met extraordinary innovators at drone factories and visited war-weary but motivated soldiers close to the kill-zone. We heard from NGOs, media
Unlike the UK, the US still has faith in South Africa
I wasn’t expecting any warmth toward South Africa before I arrived at a conference held in my new hometown in Texas, and I couldn’t have left more surprised. There, one of Donald Trump’s favourite economists, Stephen Moore, a former advisor
SA invests 14 cents of every rand it earns – meaningful growth needs twice that
South Africa spent 13.9% of its national income on new buildings, machinery and equipment (gross fixed capital formation as a percentage of GDP) in 2025. In 2008 the figure was 21.6%. The National Development Plan set a target of 30%.
AI agents – the sucking sounds of emptying bank deposit accounts?
I am writing a series of columns looking at the effect the sudden flood of agentic AI capabilities will have on the rest of us. I wrote about the effect of AI agents on the advertising-supported online economy here, but
The privacy dilemma: when protecting the innocent also protects the guilty
We live in an age of exposure. Every transaction, search, and movement leaves a trace. Your phone knows where you’ve been. Your browser remembers what you think. The systems we depend on are quietly building a biography of each of