The true costs of BEE

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

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

“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

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

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

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