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ANC unveils plan B

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Makone Maja and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the latest in budget negotiations and falling CEO confidence in South Africa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg82mqLjxc8

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Retaliatory tariffs are bad policy

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We all like to hear fighting words from the targets of Trump’s tariffs, but counter-tariffs only make a bad situation worse. Lately, we’ve had a lot of opportunity to discuss tariffs and whether they’re a good idea. US president Donald

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Perceptions of race

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The issue of race rears its head at every available opportunity, and yet in many (most?) cases it is used as a means of identifying a group which may in fact have little to do specifically with race. To quote

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Dismantling is easy, but rebuilding is hard: Trump doesn’t have the time

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Writer and political commentator Rian Malan and I have had daily email arguments about politics for many years, particularly US politics. We disagree on much, but not everything. The debates have gotten hotter since Trump 2.0, when a new word

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Is the GNU about to change completely?

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Today's Daily Friend show with Sara Gon, John Endres and Nicholas Lorimer discusses the prospects of a deal on the budget between the DA and ANC and if this will change the way the GNU has worked up until now.

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Gabriel Crouse explains the 'BEE premium' and why taxpayers should stop paying for it

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We present the podcasts of the weekly IRR Show on Chai FM. The show is broadcast live every Tuesday from 09h00 to 10h00 on Chai FM 101.9 and deals with the politics of the day and related issues. We also

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Balancing the books and rebalancing the (political) economy

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It’s been in the works for years, and the subject of numerous warnings, but it’s here. South Africa has reached its long foretold fiscal crisis. That is, the revenue expected will not cover enough of the expenditure projected. The finance

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SA and US isolationism

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Few Americans have passports, overseas trading is a small portion of their economy, and US culture is inward facing. Perhaps such isolation encourages Americans to pioneer new paths. The country most geographically distant from a top-three economy is SA, and