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Water: only the excellence of outcomes matters

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Pummelled by load shedding, South Africa’s long-suffering people have come to accept that a plentiful and reliable supply of electricity is just not available to

A complicated reality on South Africa’s farms

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I doubt that Yvonne Busisiwe Phyllis would find much common ground with me. She is a director of The Forge, which describes itself as ‘a

No solutions on display last week – and not only in the shutdown

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The Economic Freedom Fighters’ ‘national shutdown’ last week brought out modest numbers of people, intimidated some businesses into closing and gave the EFF an outsized

Exempt farmers from municipal rates to help them with State of Disaster

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South Africa is now in its second state of disaster since 2020, but for the agricultural sector it represents another in an escalating series of

Bigger problems

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‘We’ve got bigger problems.’ These days, that’s likely to be the response from most ordinary people in South Africa if pressed about their views on

Growth is not magic, and BEE is not sacrosanct

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Comments made en passant – which is a pretentious way of saying ‘in passing’ or ‘as an aside’ – can sometimes be very revealing. This

Thinking global, and acting local

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A small but intriguing detail in South Africa’s approach to Russia’s war on Ukraine has been playing itself out in Cape Town. As preparations were

How load-shedding hits your food

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It’s often necessary to remind ourselves of a truism, just because we often don’t have to think about it. One of the more obvious is

Press Briefing on South Africa’s Power Crisis

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Good morning, and thank you for joining us. We hope those who are here in person had a pleasant trip over to the State of

Thoughts on the State of the Nation

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I watched the annual State of the Nation (SONA) ritual with particular interest this year. Partly, it was because of the general state of the