NACAC caught between rock of constitutionalism and hard place of SA politics
The rock of constitutionalism is the foundation of the new or post-liberation order in SA. The Constitution and the rule of law are regarded as
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What was Rupert doing in the White House?
Every story is actually the same story: another weekend, another scandal, another former prominent Conservative MP. A decade ago I lost the capacity to be startled by these people and what they get up to, because when you become a politician,
Ramaphosa vs Trump
Nicholas Lorimer and Makone Maja discuss the explosive and chaotic meeting between Donald Trump and Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbNflr3YTww
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 – or what will be remembered as the historic death knell of a once-formidable organisation, doomed
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 in comments that conflict with years of DA warnings about expropriation without compensation, and threaten
DA faces greater moral crisis today than during Maimane years
Yesterday, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen formed part of a delegation that visited Donald Trump to plead South Africa’s case. Precisely what Steenhuisen’s contributions were is not yet clear, but this is what he should have done: encourage the
What South Africans really think
Hermann Pretorius and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the latest polling from the IRR about how South Africans feel on a variety of policy questions. They show that the ANC is deeply out of touch with how South Africans actually feel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcFNtCEuxjM
Ramaphosa and Trump: what’s the deal?
It is unlikely that a solve-it-all reset deal will emerge from the meeting between President Cyril Ramaphosa and President Donald Trump at the White House later today. For South Africa the stakes are high, and Ramaphosa is under domestic pressure
Copyright infringement – is AI just a common thief?
Among the many anxieties that have bubbled up in AI’s wake since ChatGPT launched in November 2022 (and ushered in the dawn of GenAI, or ‘generative AI’), few rise to the level of outrage among creators of intellectual property (IP)