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Policy certainty not enough to avoid failed-state status

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A common refrain throughout 2019, particularly from business leaders, was that South Africa was in dire need of policy certainty. Early in the second half

Eskom 2020

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December 2019. It’s difficult to think of a time since 1994 when we as a country have approached the New Year so alive to the

SA’s economic prospects remain frozen

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Just a few months ago on his visit to London to attend the Financial Times’ Africa Summit, President Cyril Ramaphosa will have felt the chill

The writing on the wall

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Walking is always the best way to get to know foreign places, at the human scale that walking the streets always promises. But the same

Getting it wrong on ‘land reform’

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In a 1996 book on South Africa’s apartheid legacy, Reconciliation through Truth, the late Kader Asmal and his co-authors made numerous assertions that can fruitfully

A troubling glimpse of the future

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To understand how a phenomenon will unfold in the future, a good starting point is to look to how it developed in the past, and

Time for BEE to go

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It’s rare that a corporate leader in South Africa is willing to rise above the parapets on a touchy issue, and noteworthy when one does.

Will South Africa get those investments in?

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South Africa recently hosted the second of President Ramaphosa’s investment summits. In the wake of the depressing Medium Term Budget Policy Statement and close-shave of

Alarm in Washington: another front in the Expropriation without Compensation battle?

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South Africa’s relationship with the United States, long a complicated one, has been thrown into sharp focus by the announcement from the office of the

‘Wir reden über Gott und die Welt…’

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So goes a popular German expression, literally translated as ‘we speak of God and the World’. It means to discuss a limitless range of issues