Shot in foot

How “South Africans” do it

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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