It should heed South African Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago’s advice that ‘restoring confidence is the cheapest form of stimulus’. Earlier this month Cyril Ramaphosa

By any sane measure, it is absurd to compare an evil, despotic maniac like Robert Mugabe to either Margaret Thatcher or Ronald Reagan. Rather as

There seems to be an added dimension of sadism and madness and bloodlust to our crime. Why? I know the Clareinch Post Office well. It

Civil rights and economic freedom must be central to overcoming the devastation visited on Zimbabwe by the late Robert Mugabe. The former dictator of Zimbabwe

It remains to be seen whether there is any real appetite to discuss solutions that bring about prudent and productive land reform that really does

Expropriation without compensation (EWC) offers no redress for past wrongs – it only empowers the state, not the individual, and will be used as a

Blaming apartheid for South Africa’s ‘toxic mix of socio-economic challenges’ – as the origin of continuing sporadic bouts of xenophobic violence – is really an

The bizarre case of the three doctors and the two broken chairs – and the unanswered questions about failings in South Africa’s public health system.

Whatever Gro Brundtland may believe, one of the worst aspects of the National Health Insurance scheme is the nonchalance and insouciance with which the government

We would like to be convinced otherwise, but the evidence suggests the government has in effect lost control and can at best manage and mitigate