

What Rasool said: insights into the ANC mind?
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Mar 19, 2025
Ebrahim Rasool, the former South African Ambassador to the US whom the Trump administration kicked out of the country over the weekend, has been thrown

Trevor Noah: was integration a bad idea?
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Mar 19, 2025

Who pays for the ANC’s failures?
- By Daniel Eloff
- . Mar 19, 2025

The Wilgenhof settlement: what disturbs me about it
- By Daily Friend
- . Mar 19, 2025

SA Antarctic outpost rocked by assault allegations
- By Staff Writer
- . Mar 19, 2025

Attacks on ATMs drop by nearly a third
- By Staff Writer
- . Mar 19, 2025



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. They also discuss the massive scale of misspending in Johannesburg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-w0_xAzF0M

The fusing of politics and tech
- By Steven Boykey Sidley
- . Mar 18, 2025
There is something inevitable about the Trump/Musk duopoly currently wreaking havoc on previously solid global and domestic political pillars. Depending on where you sit on the political spectrum this is either a source of glee (tinged with a soupçon of

Read the Budget: it’s your money
- By Chris Patterson
- . Mar 18, 2025
“South Africa could come to a standstill,” I wrote in August last year, after the Appropriation Bill was passed by Parliament. Not until days before the first 2025 budget was due to be tabled did I actually think it could

How Woke activism destroyed UCT’s Professor Bongani Mayosi
- By Richard Wilkinson
- . Mar 18, 2025
This month marks a decade since the advent of Fallism and Woke activism at the University of Cape Town. Amid the turmoil and destruction, one story stands out as a tragic testament to the devastating human toll inflicted by Woke

SA’s ambassador to the US gets cancelled
- By Daily Friend
- . Mar 17, 2025
Today's Daily Friend Show with Nicholas Lorimer, Terence Corrigan, and John Endres discusses the expulsion of South Africa's ambassador to the US Ebrahim Rasool by the U.S. government. They also chat about a big bank's assessment of EWC and the

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