Promise of a professional public service
The public service is a reality in our lives, but one that we often find opaque and incomprehensible.
Strong enough to win
I stand before you as your newly elected leader with one promise: However long I have the privilege of serving in this job, I will be dedicated to the mission of building a stronger South Africa for everyone.
How to get the BER’s “Fish Eagle” to soar in SA
The Bureau for Economic Research at Stellenbosch University has devised three scenarios for the economic future of SA. The scenarios have received some media coverage, including South Africa’s future: Three economic scenarios explored.
Let’s go for People’s Capitalism
South Africa’s liberal oppositional parties tend to argue that they’d carry out ANC policies more efficiently and less corruptly. That’s their selling point, but it’s not much of an alternative.
The trouble with the new history curriculum
The Department of Basic Education has put a new draft history curriculum out for public comment. The window closes on 19 April. South Africans who care about what their children will learn have just a week to read the draft and make their views known.
Historic place of the Blue Machine
We have just watched a powerful – if brief – history of the Democratic Alliance, beginning with our founding Congress 26 years ago. But the values we stand for are far older. We did not invent them.
We now shape the destiny of SA
That a party once consigned to irrelevance and ridicule now shapes the destiny of South Africa, is the legacy I leave behind for the Democratic Alliance.
Mounting risks of recession
Even with the current ceasefire, does the US and Israel war against Iran portend recession?
Ending Angola’s ‘Perfect Dictatorship’: Juntos por Angola: Outro passo para a Liberdade – Adalberto Costa Junior
The Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, who died last year, is not only remembered as one of the greatest novelists in recent history, but also as one of the main voices defending political freedom and individual rights in Latin America.
Trust, division and economic growth
I have been reading and researching interpersonal trust recently because in my years of looking at the General Social Survey of the US I noticed it relates to many important aspects of life such as economic welfare and happiness.