Shawn Hagedorn

Suppose that rather than racing to commercialise space tourism, Musk, Bezos and Branson were competing to create jobs in South Africa. The term, ‘conspicuous consumption’,

Materialism’s appeal is wilting globally, while policies prioritising inequality entrench South Africa’s rampant poverty. It’s time to rethink objectives. The Spanish Flu was followed by

A funding crisis seems increasingly probable. But would that lead to the IMF negotiating necessary policy reforms? The IMF’s prospective value-add can be formidable when

There are two ways to read that question and in both cases the answer is yes. In both cases the implications for South Africa run

Our ruling party is expected to benefit electorally from its anti-corruption efforts, while legal forms of patronage sink the economy. Basic income grant (BIG) debates

That the international coverage of chaos in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng was superseded by the assassination of Haiti’s president was not totally random. Liberation movements don’t

Where is the evidence that the ANC’s goals have changed? To party elders, Zuma’s unforgivable sin was his electoral toxicity. Echoing past injustices, systemic patronage

Asia is now the centre of global growth, as it converted massive poverty into the world’s most populous middle class. Circumstances across this country and

China’s recent policy pivot to grow its workforce highlights how scarcity-abundance-scarcity cycles have become outdated for most societies. The implications for South Africa run deep.

South Africa’s political and economic challenges will remain unmanageable until we reframe our national discourse. Our adoption of a global perspective can be fast-tracked by