Bozell may be the US ambassador and he's not housetrained!

For some time now there’s been a collective wish that Koos Bekker would rock up unannounced at News24 and hold court with an urgent intervention: “Today I’m admitting your editor into the finger-painting class at Valkenberg Hospital where he’ll stay

NO MORE RACE LAWS!

Hermann Pretorius and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the IRR's new "No more race laws" bill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIE9bg7LAhk

“Kill the Boer”: Marco Rubio, the Supreme Court of Appeal, and the rule of law

On 21 March, Julius Malema celebrated Human Rights Day by once again inciting the killings of (primarily white) farmers. The Supreme Court of Appeal last year decided that calls for racial slaughter are consistent with South African law. Among other

A view from Washington, DC

While walking from one briefing to the next in Washington, DC, last week, I received a notification from South Africa’s favourite app. EskomSePush told me loadshedding stage 2 had been implemented. In places such as Washington, a narrative that doing

Debt, debt, and more debt

Chris Hattingh and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the staggering amount of money municipalities owe to Eskom. They also talk about income tax bracket creep and the new US ambassador. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoGnxybL1nw

Wakeup call

ANC: How does it back down to save SA from a full-blown crisis?

Two big issues are now front and centre in our politics, and both point to the divided and weakened state of the ANC. Neither issue can be resolved without a public and humiliating back-down by the ANC. The first issue

The Chinese are coming! The Chinese are coming!

The relentless waves of political news coming from the US have had an interesting side effect. All of us, even those with only a glancing interest in these matters, now know the names of numerous important characters swirling around US