Shifting sands of the BEE debate

Nicholas Lorimer and John Endres discuss the rapidly changing BEE debate and how it is shifting towards admitting BEE’s failure. They also talk about SA’s crime problem and its effect on economic growth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pKhV3PpxKI

A “small, minority party”, with an outsized influence

It’s a “small, minority party”, President Cyril Ramaphosa told his American counterpart at their face-to-face a week ago. It was not a part of the government, and its rhetoric did not reflect government policy. He was referring to the Economic

South Africa: The curse of high expectations

It is a story as old as humanity itself. Icarus burns his wings when he flies too close to the sun. Icarus didn't fail – he just aimed too high. He had a good plan: his wings were well-designed, he

The black victims of BEE

BEE has one purpose only, and that is to enrich the political elite. It has been brilliantly successful. The result of BEE exactly fulfills the intention: it has made the rich richer and the poor poorer, and has worsened the

No genocide here: Afrikaner exodus a political performance, not a crisis

According to Neil Diamond, President of the South African Chamber of Commerce, over 70,000 Afrikaners expressed interest in fleeing South Africa and seeking asylum in the United States. But when the time came, only 49 actually left. That’s not even

R1 trillion to 100 people

Today's Daily Friend show is another extra large panel of Chris Patterson, Nicholas Lorimer, Michael Morris and Marius Roodt discusses a calculation done by Professor William Gumede which estimates that BEE has resulted in R1 trillion being moved between under

Morals

The fall and fall of the BBC

Last week the BBC was more animated than at any time I can remember. Not just BBC News Africa, but home base too – actually Portland Place, where a sculpture by a paedophile (Eric Gill) of a man tenderly holding