Mashatile leads from the back with outdated satellite internet
The government went shopping in Dubai, and came back with an inferior alternative to Starlink. All empowerment protocols observed, the deputy president, Paul Mashatile, declared
ANC’s old friends coming home to roost
South Africa’s anti-immigrant politics did not start with Operation Dudula. They started, in part, in Harare in 2000, when Robert Mugabe’s government began seizing commercial
Pule in the cabinet, Ramaphosa’s proposals to counter corruption in ruins
Dinah Pule was in the Zuma cabinet, but lost her position in politics over scandals around abuse of public funds on foreign travel with her
Better to have a fictional vigilante than a real one
If lively or amusing instant karma is ever to have a case study, then its authors may wish to revisit the events in the Johannesburg
The inevitable left-wing tilt of the Democratic party
Some readers who follow US elections might remember a backroom political strategist named James Carville, who is credited with having almost singlehandedly rejuvenated the Democratic
Countering the perilous rightward drift: why we need a coherent socialist proposition
Once the “reds under the bed” bugbear against which the entire resources of PW Botha’s militarist apartheid state was marshalled, the “South African Revolution” (capital
Democracy and deliberation: Dennis Davis must sleep in the bed he helped make
Dennis Davis has published a second edition of his 1999 book Democracy and Deliberation. In an extract from the new edition, appearing in the Daily
What happens when the migrants leave?
South Africa’s demographics and economy might be about to change in a big way. Foreign migrants, both legal and illegal, are fleeing the country and
What’s wrong with ‘Professor’ Jiang
Jiang has rapidly become one of the internet’s most talked-about commentators on geopolitics and history. His lectures are often compelling. They are also, I argue,
On borders: when reasonable people disagree
Classical liberals tend to favour low barriers to cross-border migration, but not all do. Let’s consider the disagreements. Over the weekend, as today’s day of