South Africa’s vicious economic cycle
The South African economy is trapped in a vicious cycle of low growth, high unemployment, high government budget deficits, bad governance, vast, poorly run sectors
Reasons for optimism in 2022
Every new year, I try to write a piece to remind us (and perhaps reassure myself) of reasons for being satisfied with the present and
This just isn’t good enough
Most Daily Friend readers will have just finished their Christmas breaks, enjoying time with friends and family, taking life easy for a couple of weeks
Hooray for our home-grown heretics
The death of Desmond Tutu has reminded me how lucky South Africa has been to have had clergymen brave enough to take on the powers
Asteroids and Anxiety
Just when it appears we can perhaps breathe a little easier, literally, with the Covid-19 virus morphing into a less severe or lung-damaging, although still
Stupidity and doubt threaten the West
2022 promises paradox. On the one hand, the world will still enjoy the wonderful improvement in human welfare that Western Civilisation has delivered. The last
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 20th December 1948 – Operation Kraai: The Dutch military captures Yogyakarta, the
Exploration blocked because dead people live in the sea
In a wild judgment on the Wild Coast, the High Court granted an interim interdict blocking a seismic survey, inter alia because some local people
Non-racialism, the choice of a supermajority of South Africans
Over the festive season, the Daily Friend has been rerunning some most-read, or especially significant, articles from 2021. The following piece was published on 27 June. Earlier
The truth about the April 1994 election
The Daily Friend is rerunning some of our most-read articles over the festive season. This week marks the 27th anniversary of 27th April 1994. This date commemorates