Helen Zille: a Joburg future imagined
In her evocative and visually stirring book, Wake Up, This Is Joburg, produced in collaboration with photographer Mark Lewis, urban planner Tanya Zack takes the
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Timur’s triumph
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 28th July 1402 – Ottoman-Timurid Wars: Battle of Ankara: Timur, ruler of the Timurid Empire, defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire’s Sultan Bayezid I Painting depicting Bayezid
As the shout for monumental change gets louder …
In November 2023 The Guardian newspaper suffered a seizure. The cause wasn’t Donald Trump, it was Argentinian presidential candidate Javier Milei. The newspaper wasn’t in a good place, trapped between losing money – as usual – and being screamed at
Lesufi's witch hunt
Nicholas Lorimer and Hermann Pretorius discuss state capture attempts at Pretoria High School for Girls. They also discuss attempts to limit property rights of the poorest South Africans and increasing conflict inside the ANC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCosdv5o7cU
Two visions of what SA can be
Is South Africa doomed? Many think it is. Those who believe the end is nigh share a bleak but increasingly common outlook. In their telling, South Africa’s decline is not only severe: it is irreversible. In this interpretation, today’s trendlines
Death, taxes and the thinning of global news
Like many of my colleagues and friends who have always consumed daily news as a matter of habit and pleasure, there is, of late, a slight feeling of dread upon awakening as I groggily look at my phone to see
No, the Nazis did not “protect” private property, for one simple reason
The modern left gets much joy from construing anything to the right of Karl Marx as “fascist” or “Nazi,” but get upset when, inevitably, it is pointed out what the “zi” in “Nazi” stands for. No way, they exclaim, just
Ramaphosa’s plans in shambles
Nicholas Lorimer and Chris Hattingh discuss the ANC's foreign policy and how it seems to be completely falling apart, as well as Eskom's desperate attempts to hold on to its monopoly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thlHkckz3tw
Johannesburg central to how SA will reset
Listen to the talk shows on the radio, the policy wonks and people on the street. There is a growing sense of collapse and crisis. Not only is the economy hardly growing and unemployment at astronomical levels, and our dorps