
South Africa, for good reason, has lost the ability to trust
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Jul 14, 2025
Like many of us, I suspect, I watched the media conference by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi with a grim fascination. Here we

Why SA badly needs a new centre-left party
- By Nicholas Lorimer
- . Jul 13, 2025
At first glance South Africa’s politics don’t really look that interesting. A country with a racially segregated past elects a radical far-left[1] party (the ANC)

Lesotho’s declaration of a self-inflicted disaster
- By Greg Mills and Ray Hartley
- . Jul 13, 2025
Lesotho has declared a national state of disaster over “high rates of youth unemployment and job losses”. This measure in the landlocked southern African kingdom

Why liberal democracy is reverting back to authoritarianism
- By David Matthews
- . Jul 13, 2025
Democracy and individual freedom are not natural elements of human government. Authoritarianism, the rule of society by a minority possessing moral or physical authority over

A changed region
- By Kenneth Mokgatlhe wa Kgwadi
- . Jul 13, 2025
October 7 changed the political outlook of the entire Middle East region. The political outlook of the Middle East region shifted enormously after Hamas’s surprise

Why so many economists are wrong about free markets
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Jul 12, 2025
Over 100 economists warned against Javier Milei’s economic policies. Over 100 economists were dead wrong. A friend sent me an article from The Guardian, published

Watered-down custard and the South African dream
- By Anlu Keeve
- . Jul 12, 2025
I come from a long line of ordinary South Africans, the kind of people this country runs on, working-class people who never expected shortcuts, only

“It is within your power …” An open letter to President Ramaphosa
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 12, 2025
Dear Mr President We write this open letter to you in advance of your address to the nation scheduled for 7pm tomorrow. We hope that

Like a man walking in on a toileting lady …
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Jul 11, 2025
Bidvest is exposed as discriminating against impoverished white toddlers, so Solidarity’s Chief Executive, Dirk Hermann, writes them a letter. Bidvest then responds not through its

Misrepresenting Cape Independence: values, not race
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 11, 2025
Dear Editor In his recent article, The toxic lure of enclaves and anti-immigrationism, Ivo Vegter accuses supporters of Cape Independence and self-determination more broadly of