

Ramaphosa opens Pandora’s Box
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 14, 2025
Dr John Endres and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the announcement by the president of a commission of enquiry into the police. They also discuss the shocking



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 attack on the State of Israel on the morning of the 7th October 2023, which

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 shortly before the 2023 election in Argentina won by libertarian candidate Javier Milei. It is

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 the chance to build something a little sturdier for the next generation. When I was

"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 our intervention will assist you in the formulation of your response to the matters raised

City of cutoffs
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 11, 2025
In today's Daily Friend Show, Terence Corrigan and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the billing mismanagement of Johannesburg, the failures of the mining ministry, and an MK fundraiser. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CA1DUu5Phc

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 CEO, but its corporate communications guy, and that − to paraphrase the final line of

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 retreating into ethnic enclaves − motivated, he suggests, by fear, nostalgia, or xenophobia. This framing

SA can do it
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 10, 2025
Michael Morris and Nicholas Lorimer discuss South Africa's great economic potential, what the president should say about the police minister, and a rare ANC economic win. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jxIMz6er4U