America and Europe: You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone

The Transatlantic Alliance - which has existed in some form since 1940 - seems shakier than ever. Europe is angry at what it sees as American attempts to cut it out of peace talks over Ukraine, and America’s lack of

Going, going, Godongwana

Nicholas Lorimer and Hermann Pretorius discuss the budget and what it portends for the Government of National Unity (GNU). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svBT1-k5K1M

The benefits of exporting stability

The inauguration in Montevideo’s Plaza Independencia offers a flashback to the 1960s: a sea of flags some displaying the hammer and sickle, banners with left-wing slogans uniting ‘anti-fascists’ in favour of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, throngs of mate sippers with

Budget speech or no speech today: The VAT fight and our new politics

The Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana, may or may not deliver the Budget speech later today. Our politics are in a strange new place. For the past fortnight it has appeared to be touch and go whether or not we will

Our public health system doesn't deserve our trust

Nicholas Lorimer and Makone Maja discuss the report of the health ombudsman on the state of Helen Joseph Hospital. They also talk about a social media fuss around sport, arts and culture minister Gayton McKenzie and racial quotas as well as “e-voting”.

Donald Winfrey

Expropriation Act: deepening the deficiency

This piece, written in response to two articles published in the first week in February, was offered to, but not published by, the Mail & Guardian. The most impressive feature of two pieces recently published by the Mail & Guardian

JD Vance’s preposterous Munich speech

Last month, JD Vance berated European leaders in Munich over “the threat from within”. His speech was nuts. At the Munich Security Conference held in Germany last month, United States vice president JD Vance made a startling statement: “...the threat