

Do we want solutions or perpetual conflict?
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Jun 16, 2025

Gas the Jews! Queers for Palestine
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Jun 15, 2025

Trouble Ahead? The G7/G20 in the Age of Trump
- By Barry D. Wood
- . Jun 15, 2025

DA MP defects to PA
- By Staff Writer
- . Jun 16, 2025

Beckham, Oldman knighted by King Charles
- By Staff Writer
- . Jun 16, 2025

Nigeria posthumously pardons Saro-Wiwa
- By Staff Writer
- . Jun 16, 2025



The GNU turns one
- By Daily Friend
- . Jun 13, 2025
Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Chris Hattingh and Terence Corrigan discusses the one-year anniversary of the GNU, China trying to woo Africa, and Israel's strikes on Iran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl6IoOM3400

National Dialogue? Not with these people
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Jun 13, 2025
I have rules I apply whenever I see an “eminent persons list”. I take the names and assess whether any of them would either lead or participate in a “stolen land” ceremony, or “acknowledgment of country”. When that exercise is

Ramaphosa will talk this country to death
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Jun 13, 2025
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a National Dialogue, starting with a National Convention in August. Talk is not what this country needs. If there’s one person who is all talk an no action, it’s Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa. That was a

Getting better politicians
- By Daily Friend
- . Jun 12, 2025
Nicholas Lorimer and Hermann Pretorius discuss an article about the rigorous new standards the ANC is setting for its candidate selection. They use this to get into a broader discussion of how South Africa can get better politicians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZA7WvzidxQ

Jo’burg: the DA’s Operation Market Garden?
- By Nicholas Lorimer
- . Jun 12, 2025
In the closing months of the Second World War in Europe, the Allies were advancing towards Germany, but faced the formidable Siegfried Line of fortifications. British commander, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, proposed a daring plan to capture bridges over the

The totality of race law in South Africa’s economy
- By Martin van Staden
- . Jun 12, 2025
The following are edited remarks I delivered at the launch of the joint Free Market Foundation-Solidarity Research Institute report on the cost of so-called “broad-based black economic empowerment” policies at Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, on 12 June. Thank you to everyone

Really? A national dialogue?
- By Daily Friend
- . Jun 11, 2025
Makone Maja and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the planned "National Dialogue", pull back on BEE in mining, and score cards for ministers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDVqwTsm2VA

Privatise the SABC Entirely!
- By Reuben Coetzer
- . Jun 11, 2025
In politics, the phrase “too big to fail” often just means “too interconnected to be allowed to fail”. The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is one such beast deemed to be too big to fail. Since 2009, the SABC has