The Joburg Crisis: Is the mayor hiding the truth?
Chris Hattingh and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the accusations that the mayor of Jo’burg has been covering up the financial damage to Joburg caused by City
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The basics of fixing SA’s economy
Exceptional problem solvers, like Musk, or Einstein, who frame issues by focusing on first principles, would fix our economy by focusing on jobs, not GDP or investment flows. Higher growth must come from increasing either domestic consumption or exports. For
Genocide and non-genocide
There is a real genocide happening in the world right now and it is largely ignored. There are also two bogus genocides getting massive attention. The real genocide is in Sudan where hundreds of thousands of poor black Africans are
Big Agri’s quiet betrayal of SA’s farmers
Two weeks ago at NAMPO, Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson assured the audience that the new Expropriation Act was no cause for alarm. I shared the panel with him, Jaco Kleynhans of Solidariteit, as well as representatives of
NACAC caught between rock of constitutionalism and hard place of SA politics
The rock of constitutionalism is the foundation of the new or post-liberation order in SA. The Constitution and the rule of law are regarded as supreme, and these basic parameters are recorded in Section 1 of Chapter One of the
Afrikaners and the politics of refugee protection
One of the questions we are left after President Cyril Ramaphosa’s White House encounter with President Donald Trump is this: Are the Afrikaners (or now “Amerikaners”) who left for the US bona fide refugees fleeing “white genocide” in South Africa?
Stakeholders are speaking, but is UCT listening?
The University of Cape Town (UCT) alumni community is buzzing with petitions, calls to action, and open letters in response to the UCT Council’s June 2024 decision to prohibit UCT academics from establishing or maintaining relations with “any research group
DA’s budget victory?
Today's Daily Friend Show with John Endres, Marius Roodt, and Nicholas Lorimer discusses the third attempt at a budget. They also talk about regulatory changes on internet providers and SA dependence on HIV/AIDS support from the US. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgBaTGWpFo8&t=1s
The Squirrel and Donnie show, or, how I choose what to write about
I often get questions about why I cover this thing, but not that thing, or why I write about international politics when there is so much to write about in South Africa. The question of what to write about is