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The Harvard Report: An indictment of a one-party dominant rule

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The Harvard Report, Growth Through Inclusion in South Africa, released last week is a damning indictment of the entire ANC project. It is one of the

What comes after a century of South African nationalism?

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Next year will mark a hundred years since the National Party gained a foothold in government as part of a coalition with the South African

Reconfiguring the state: Is it really politically possible?

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The government has plans to reconfigure the state. But the precise meaning of this and its scale and timing are still unknown. The need to

If not now, when will the fiscal crisis be dealt with?

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This afternoon, the Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana, will present his Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) to Parliament, outlining spending, taxation, and borrowing plans for the

Playing with fire: SA’s foreign policy mess

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South Africa is bumbling along from one foreign policy mess to another. The real risk is that at some stage, the West, where most of

What will emerge from the Israel-Hamas War?

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The war between Israel and Hamas could become one of the most intense and prolonged that has yet been fought in the Middle East in

What form will Israel’s wake up call take?

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For Hamas and its backers, the attacks on Israel over the weekend might be an immense success as a show of an ability to execute

The Detrimental State and the Counter-Revolution

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The signs of accelerating state failure are pretty much everywhere: from the potholes, the urban decay, crimes that are not prosecuted, the lack of security,

Our wider defence tragedy

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Last week three South African Navy submariners were swept off their vessel’s hull to their deaths while taking on supplies from a helicopter. An official

Lessons from the Tshwane strike

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For the past two months, the City of Tshwane has faced illegal strike action by the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) in support of