BEE: Its time to tell it like it is
Today’s Daily Friend Show with Marius Roodt, Makone Maja, and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the ongoing public debate around BEE. They also discuss Malema being denied
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“But what’s the alternative to BEE?”
The Free Market Foundation and Solidarity Research Institute last week launched perhaps the first quantification of the cost of so-called broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE) policies to the South African economy, in both economic growth and jobs. It is clear
A national dialogue can work … if the right players discuss the right topics
The official announcement of the upcoming national dialogue has been met with derision and disgust in some quarters. A long litany of gripes and groans can be gleaned from media reports. With a budget for the dialogue estimated at R700
Doctors challenge union and NHI
Nicholas Lorimer and Anlu Keeve discuss a group of doctors who have launched an attack on the South African Medical Association Trade Union for not standing up for doctors. They also discuss City Power being mismanaged and the Right to
Unacknowledged dangers in the new mining bill
The Mineral Resources Development Bill of 2025 has been roundly rejected by most commentators on the struggling mining industry. Mining analyst Peter Major says the bill lacks even “one redeeming feature to attract any investment, local or foreign”. Mining lawyer
The commission which helps keep us poor
Michael Morris and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the Competition Commission and its negative effects on investment. They also chat about the national dialogue and why its silly and lastly they discuss claims that SA’s unemployment rate is actually much lower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsYPk63DTV8
What does Grok know about murder in South Africa?
An image circulating on social media claims that at least 20 times as many people have been murdered in South Africa since 1994 than during apartheid. An interesting factoid crossed my social media feed recently: The point of the message
Iran – there is only one good way for this to end
It was clear from the start of the Israeli strikes on Iran that they had been meticulously planned (for well over a year, according to some reports). Everything from incognito operatives on the ground in Tehran to a wide range
Eternal hope and Prague Springs − Central Europe’s Mandela
“If we don't have hope, we don't have anything,” said Václav Havel, the playwright, author, dissident and politician. Considered an iconoclast, a Central European version of Nelson Mandela, Havel’s role in the birth of the modern Western-oriented Czech state has