The ANC’s and DA’s fates are bound together

Whilst our democratic-era politics has had parties and personalities rise and fall since at least 1999, it has in many ways revolved around a battle between the ANC and the DP/DA.  These two parties had the clearest conflicting visions for the

The budget is made up and the money ain’t there

Makone Maja and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the practice of irresponsible municipal budgeting. They also chat about the impossibility of NHI and how SA is forced to hustle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zradO2Uw1C0

The ANC can’t save itself by a “reset” of the GNU

The ANC showed yesterday that it is desperate to dilute the role of the DA in any future power-sharing arrangement. It hopes it can more effectively get its way in a wider coalition. That was the clear intention of a

Make it make sense!

Without straight answers from the White House, nothing about America’s trade policy makes any sense. Why did US president Donald Trump levy a 10% import tariff on goods from the Heard and McDonald Islands? The penguins wanted to know, so

ANC is obsessed with power

John Endres and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the ANC’s desire to blow up the GNU slowly. They also discuss the IRR engaging with the EFF and MK as well as a scam run by North Korea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6J29kePPjI

How low can you go?

The ANC’s dangerous delusions

“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be”. - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The

Method or madness or both? Trump and his tariffs

The ructions caused by US President Donald Trump’s tariff blitz have been severe and felt all over the world, not least in Africa, where some of the heaviest tariffs have been imposed. The emerging consensus is the “mad man” theory,