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.
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Poverty, predators, and policy: the true horror of joblessness and vulnerability
The vulnerability of joblessness manifests in ways most of us can hardly imagine. In South Africa, unemployment is most often discussed through statistics and economic
Fatal grip: how ANC’s intransigent coalition logic is driving it to oblivion
From as early as the 1980s, the ANC has exhibited a reflex of treating any broad coalition or unity front as an extension of itself,
Substantive pro-growth transformation up for grabs as a piece of political real estate
The DA is right to oppose Black Economic Empowerment. The announcement earlier this week by Federal Leader John Steenhuisen that the GNU’s second party has
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