SA’s Goldilocks moment?

While stating the global economy is at a “critical juncture,” in its latest World Economic Outlook the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slashed its global GDP outlook for this year from the 3.3% projected in January to 2.8%. For South

Pearl Harbour avenged

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 18th April 1943 – In Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by US fighters over Bougainville Island Admiral Yamamoto, a

ANC withdraws VAT increase

Terence Corrigan and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the decision by the finance minister to withdraw the VAT increase. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzSD7Rn21Zs

Everyone's crowing

The Man Who Should Be President

“I feel like I am in a golden jail, even though Spain has given me shelter”. Edmundo González, a veteran Venezuelan diplomat turned politician, ran for the opposition Unitary Platform in his country’s July 2024 election. By all accounts –

Godongwana (ideally the whole Cabinet) must resign after budget spectacle 

The 2025 national budget is gearing up to be South Africa’s most contentious, possibly ever.   That budgets are now on the table of contestation is undeniably good: this dormant feature of our democracy can at last be exercised. But this

Are we living in a BANI country?

Janet Jobson is a “merchant of hope”. She has to be because she heads up the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation. She has brought the concept of “BANI” into the national discourse, and not a moment too soon either.

Why Ramaphosa may not make it to the finish line

Section 88(2) of the Constitution provides that no person may hold office as President for more than two terms. But in the three decades since South Africa’s democratic dawn, barring Nelson Mandela, no ANC leader has managed to complete their