

The true costs of BEE
- By Daily Friend
- . Mar 18, 2025
Nicholas Lorimer and Makone Maja discuss the costs BEE imposes on South Africa and how it fails to uplift the lives of black South Africans.

The fusing of politics and tech
- By Steven Boykey Sidley
- . Mar 18, 2025

Read the Budget: it’s your money
- By Chris Patterson
- . Mar 18, 2025

SA’s ambassador to the US gets cancelled
- By Daily Friend
- . Mar 17, 2025

Just under 8m taxpayers pay most towards 28m grant recipients
- By Staff Writer
- . Mar 18, 2025

Angola bars African politicians from opposition party summit
- By Staff Writer
- . Mar 18, 2025



Shot in foot
- By David Doubell
- . Mar 17, 2025

How “South Africans” do it
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Mar 17, 2025
I’m pleased I can write this; a few days ago, I couldn’t. The power was out. It went on Wednesday evening and just stayed off. The inverter hung in for about a day, but eventually gave out too. On Thursday

SA counts the costs of an idiocracy
- By Greg Mills and Ray Hartley
- . Mar 17, 2025
There has seldom been as ill-considered a rant as that placed on record by the SA Ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool, at an online dialogue organised by an ANC think tank. During a feverish ‘analysis’ of the US, Rasool

Can the ANC keep benefiting at SA’s expense?
- By Shawn Hagedorn
- . Mar 17, 2025
Current budgeting difficulties evidence how ANC and SA interests are tightly linked, whereas US-SA relations reflect ANC indulgences which are as reckless as they are inadequately understood. ANC elites have lived lavishly for over three decades while bequeathing the next

The best and worst of Trump: Climate and trade
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Mar 16, 2025
In just under two months, President Trump has helped to save the world from one destructive folly but threatened it with another. He seems incoherent to the point of insanity. Some people say that his mad plans, such as evacuating

South Africa: struggling to make it
- By Daily Friend
- . Mar 15, 2025
Today's Daily Friend Show with Chris Hattingh, Anlu Keeve, and Nicholas Lorimer discusses the massive roadblocks to developing South Africa's manufacturing sector. They also discuss an investment package from the EU and the epidemic of extortion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKA9vhm3F58

The proposed 2025 budget is an insulting failure
- By Nicholas Woode-Smith
- . Mar 15, 2025
South Africa’s delayed 2025 Budget is no win for ordinary South Africans. And despite what some politicians may argue, it isn’t even a worthy “compromise.” The fact of the matter is that South Africa has far crossed over the sweet

Smarmy Carney looking for a barney
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Mar 14, 2025
There once was a BBC journalist – a Canadian liberal who was also an academic and wrote for London’s The Observer newspaper – who one day decided to go into politics back home. His name was Michael Grant Ignatieff. According