Ramaphosa claims mining is proof of BEE success!
On today’s Daily Friend Show, John Endres and Nicholas Lorimer discuss Ramaphosa’s answers to a Q&A in parliament about BEE, the role of MK and
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Ramaphosa fires Tolashe
Nicholas Lorimer and Terence Corrigan discuss the dismissal of Social Development Minister Sisisi Tolashe. They also discuss sweatshops in KZN and the ANC’s sink-or-swim moment. https://youtu.be/EjBFRTjXYMQ?si=fS16S0eocbe2BQ7T
Denying Britain’s achievements in abolishing slavery
South Africa’s draft history curriculum ignores 5,000 years of African enslavement and focuses instead on the roughly 300 years of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. It also excludes Britain’s enormous achievements in abolishing that trade and ending slavery in many parts
Sci-fi grokked AI when your grandpa was still young
Today’s artificial intelligence was anticipated many decades ago. Let’s dive into the literature. When OpenAI unleashed ChatGPT upon the world a little over three years ago, and it was followed in quick succession by rapidly improving artificial intelligence models that
Stop treating “representivity” as an unassailable gospel
News24 deputy politics editor Bongekile Macupe last week undertook a racial bean-counting exercise in the finest tradition of South Africa’s old census bureaucracy by naming all the new leadership figures and mayoral candidates of the Democratic Alliance (DA) and categorising them by race and gender. It does not matter to Macupe if
Polling on healthcare reveals desire for quality, choice – IRR
Just under 60% of respondents in a 2025 survey by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) said they would opt for private healthcare if they could afford it. Questions in the survey explored South Africans’ attitudes toward public and private
Motsoaledi: NHI will fix it all
Anlu Keeve and Makone Maja discuss Minister Motsoaledi’s comments regarding the judges’ impartiality in the NHI Con Court challenge, Tshwane Mayor’s appearance at SCOPA, and the ANCYL’s call to supporters to bring CVs to President Ramaphosa at the June 16
IRR's blueprint for faster growth, more jobs, and rising living standards
“Concrete ways” to stimulate faster economic growth, generate jobs and lift living standards are the substance of an address this morning by Dr John Endres, CEO of the IRR, at the University of the Free State (UFS). This event was
Taking the brakes off SA’s economy: the IRR’s Blueprint for Growth
By the end of this talk, you will be able to name exactly what is suppressing South Africa’s investment rate, and you will have a concrete reform agenda to argue for.