What kind of country do we want to be?

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Imagine, if you will, South Africa as an influential and technologically advanced member of an alliance of the world’s most powerful nations which act as

Reshuffle without Reform

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Last week’s cabinet reshuffle was crisis-driven. But the crisis will not drive reforms to boost economic growth and deal with massive and growing unemployment.  President

Limits to Growth affirmed, wrongly, again

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Yet another study has been published that claims to confirm the doomsday scenarios of The Limits to Growth, first published in 1972. In predicting calamity

Pie in the Sky revisited

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Last week’s column on ‘How to fix the country’ stated up front that Cyril Ramaphosa would probably do very little to halt South Africa’s downward

How BIG debates can squash BEE

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Our ruling party is expected to benefit electorally from its anti-corruption efforts, while legal forms of patronage sink the economy. Basic income grant (BIG) debates

SA needs more moxie from business leaders

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Panelists in a late-July webinar – it was entitled ‘It’s been a complicated few weeks…’, and included business luminaries Adrian Gore (Discovery), Robbie Brozin (Nando’s)

The last of Big Coal?

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If you had to name one substance above all others that has delivered the human race into long life, good health and prosperity, it would

Cabinet reshuffle no harbinger of reform – Frans Cronje

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The Cabinet reshuffle ‘sees the government consolidating an orientation that is quite at odds with reform and only reinforces state-directed economic planning and related dogma’.

Should Covid vaccines be compulsory?

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People who oppose vaccinations are perpetually terrified of being forced to vaccinate. Is this fear justified, and if so, is mandatory vaccination defensible? The stock

A game of thrones: a parasitic, elite apparatus

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Over the past two weeks I have been reading George R R Martin’s novel, A Clash of Kings, and watching the series that it spawned,