Chris Patterson

Countless opinion pieces, briefing memos, and explainers have been drafted on the Expropriation Act since its assent on 20 December 2024, even despite the assent

Over the past month, something has started to shift in South Africa. More and more people are questioning whether race-based policies like Black Economic Empowerment

Budget 2025, with the drama surrounding it, is all the rage these days. With the Government of National Unity on the ropes, let’s keep talking

“South Africa could come to a standstill,” I wrote in August last year, after the Appropriation Bill was passed by Parliament. Not until days before

There is one thing the ANC has been consistent about over the years: their commitment to ensuring that millions of South Africans stay reliant on

Congratulations to the matric class of 2024. Theirs is an achievement many South African children only hope to attain, but even for these matriculants, what

National government, provincial governments and municipalities are not only fooling the public, they are also fooling themselves. While Gauteng’s water crisis – no longer looming

Many of South Africa’s problems can be laid at the foot of our state-owned entities (SOEs). Over the past ten years, the South African Government

The time for an unequal education system must come to an end. With a new minister in charge of basic education for the first time