Ivo Vegter

A question that bubbled up in recent weeks is whether or not South Africa can be described as a failed state, and if so, what

More than half of South Africans are not represented at the National Dialogue, and economic growth is absent from the agenda. The National Dialogue –

Cabinet ministers have distanced themselves from political statements made by the Chief of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), General Rudzani Maphwanya, on a

Export restrictions once deemed necessary to protect US interests are now used to extort protection money from US companies. It’s a challenge to keep up

As censorial politicians charge down the slippery slope to puritanism, one site demonstrates why requiring online ID verification is dangerous. The ink had barely dried

Cyril Ramaphosa is about to make South Africa the first chump nation to validate Trump’s idiotic theory that tariffs are taxes on foreign countries. As

First France, then the UK, and then Canada promised to formally recognise the Palestinian state in September. This is terrible policy. For once, I agree

Donald Trump and EU announced the “biggest deal ever made” between the US and EU. US import tariffs remain at 15%. Looking as smug as

The US has adopted policies to screen visitors’ social media for anti-semitism (and only anti-semitism). Private profiles will have to be made public. As part

Governments are dangerous agents of censorship. Behind the scenes, however, there are far less accountable private censors, acting on behalf of self-appointed fringe moralists. Steam,