Ivo Vegter

In Texas, a new bill proposes to place the Ten Commandments in every classroom in the state. Another would allow school districts to employ chaplains

First, new electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa announced that corruption is not at the heart of Eskom’s troubles. Then, finance minister Enoch Godongwana exempted Eskom from

South Africa has a strained relationship with the International Criminal Court. Although nominally a member, it is rightly sceptical of the institution. On 17 March

The belief that rich people, and rich countries, require poor people, and poor countries, in order to sustain their wealth on the back of cheap

The religious right in the US is rapidly becoming the American Taliban. South Africa’s alt-right is adopting some of its most hateful memes. There’s an

If you want to know how socialism will work, and why it’s so much better than capitalism, all you have to do is ask the

The run on Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), which scuppered it, could be the first of many, as regulators and central banks fuel the panic. It’s

It is common cause that our cabinet ministers, with their multiple mansions, luxury cars and airline tickets, live in the lap of luxury. The problem

If you believe the greens, solar power is the future for South Africa. It isn’t. At best, it’s a short-term stop-gap. The future is nuclear.

The long-awaited cabinet reshuffle has shown Ramaphosa up for the feckless, irresolute, politicking, disrespectful little man he is. (No disrespect to men of small physical