Hermann Pretorius
Hermann Pretorius studied law and opera before entering politics and, latterly, joining the IRR as an analyst. He is presently the IRR’s Head of Strategic Communications. He describes himself as a Protestant, landless, Anglophilic, Afrikaans classical liberal.
Articles By This Author
With the wind at his back … Steenhuisen and the “moonshot pact”
The following is the second extract from my book, Rule Breakers: How the 2024 election campaign changed South Africa forever, published by Protea. The first
Turning up the volume: Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma and democratic SA’s most consequential election
The following is an extract from my book, Rule Breakers: How the 2024 election campaign changed South Africa forever, published by Protea, in which I
Big Agri’s quiet betrayal of SA’s farmers
Two weeks ago at NAMPO, Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson assured the audience that the new Expropriation Act was no cause for alarm.
From Pretoria to Washington: Is this the ANC’s last wake-up call?
Yesterday was a discomfiting moment for President Ramaphosa and the ANC. This could be a pivotal juncture for the party, a shock into recovery –
Macpherson’s defence of Expropriation Act betrays DA, endangers SA
Many South Africans were startled last week to hear the Democratic Alliance’s minister of public works and infrastructure, Dean Macpherson, defend the ANC’s Expropriation Act
“Shitholes” and supremacy: the historical illiteracy of Africa’s “unique” failures
Africa today is often cast as the global case study in post-colonial failure − plagued by fragile institutions, economic stagnation, and political instability. This has
The Lie of the Land – a response to Nkanyiso Gumede
I wrote this article in response to a question posed by researcher Nkanyiso Gumede of the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies in his
All eyes should be on the Keystone State
The American electoral system remains something of an oddity to outside observers – and even some inside participants. Unlike the popular vote, which indicates overall
Butchers and Bakers: The DA’s party management challenge in the GNU
Is being leader of the DA the most unenviable job in South Africa? Tony Leon had the unenviable task of not merely opposing Nelson Mandela,
Starmer’s stumbling start
Two days after the GNU in South Africa officially took office, Keir Starmer became the first Labour prime minister in the UK since Gordon Brown.