

Why SA badly needs a new centre-left party
- By Nicholas Lorimer
- . Jul 13, 2025
At first glance South Africa’s politics don’t really look that interesting. A country with a racially segregated past elects a radical far-left[1] party (the ANC)

A changed region
- By Kenneth Mokgatlhe wa Kgwadi
- . Jul 13, 2025

Why so many economists are wrong about free markets
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Jul 12, 2025

SA’s catastrophic economic forfeiture in perspective
- By Staff Writer
- . Jul 13, 2025

Brazil gears up to retaliate against Trump tariffs
- By Staff Writer
- . Jul 13, 2025

Sweden rents jail space from Estonia
- By Staff Writer
- . Jul 13, 2025



Watered-down custard and the South African dream
- By Anlu Keeve
- . Jul 12, 2025
I come from a long line of ordinary South Africans, the kind of people this country runs on, working-class people who never expected shortcuts, only the chance to build something a little sturdier for the next generation. When I was

"It is within your power ..." An open letter to President Ramaphosa
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 12, 2025
Dear Mr President We write this open letter to you in advance of your address to the nation scheduled for 7pm tomorrow. We hope that our intervention will assist you in the formulation of your response to the matters raised

City of cutoffs
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 11, 2025
In today's Daily Friend Show, Terence Corrigan and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the billing mismanagement of Johannesburg, the failures of the mining ministry, and an MK fundraiser. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CA1DUu5Phc

Like a man walking in on a toileting lady …
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Jul 11, 2025
Bidvest is exposed as discriminating against impoverished white toddlers, so Solidarity’s Chief Executive, Dirk Hermann, writes them a letter. Bidvest then responds not through its CEO, but its corporate communications guy, and that − to paraphrase the final line of

Misrepresenting Cape Independence: values, not race
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 11, 2025
Dear Editor In his recent article, The toxic lure of enclaves and anti-immigrationism, Ivo Vegter accuses supporters of Cape Independence and self-determination more broadly of retreating into ethnic enclaves − motivated, he suggests, by fear, nostalgia, or xenophobia. This framing

SA can do it
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 10, 2025
Michael Morris and Nicholas Lorimer discuss South Africa's great economic potential, what the president should say about the police minister, and a rare ANC economic win. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jxIMz6er4U

The impact of the Mkhwanazi revelations on the future of the GNU
- By Paul Hoffman
- . Jul 10, 2025
The KZN Police Commissioner put the cat among the political pigeons on Sunday. His essential complaint is that the executive branch of government has interfered illegally with the work of the police by sidelining investigations that have the potential to

We can only have one: EWC or constitutionalism
- By Martin van Staden
- . Jul 10, 2025
The following is an edited address I delivered at the Residential Investment & Development (Reside) Summit on 9 July. Early in May, Dean Macpherson, the Minister of Public Works, sat on a stage at the NAMPO agricultural show and explained