Recent events again show how South Africans – or at least those in the chattering classes – remain obsessed with race, to South Africa’s detriment.

With local government elections on 1 November, the respective political parties are stepping up their campaigning – and, with that, their numerous promises to a

The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control not only negatively impacts tobacco farmers, tobacco companies and tobacco retailers, but also harms smokers themselves, in several ways.

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 4th October 1993 – Battle of Mogadishu In 1991 a coalition of

In September 2021 a new opinion poll commissioned by the IRR showed that only 5% of South Africans think land reform should be one of

There is a simple way of overcoming vaccine hesitancy – incentivise hesitant people by offering rewards via lotteries. Every person who gets vaccinated against Covid-19

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana spoke out strongly last week about the urgent need for big structural reforms to boost growth. The appointment as Finance Minister

On 28 September seventeen-year-old Qiniso Dlamini was fatally shot in the gut during a scuffle with farmer Garth Simpson. This is the story about how

Peter Hain knows how to fix everything. Government, he says, should be smart, risk-taking, entrepreneurial, efficient, effective, honest and responsive to public demand. Now why

Following publication last week of the Digital Vibes report, the acting director general of health, Nicholas Crisp, was asked whether that scandal had damaged the