This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 21st February 1808 – Without declaring war, Russian troops cross the Swedish

Speaking last month to the Progressive Business Forum – a group of BEE and other businesses that pay the African National Congress (ANC) significant sums

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga recently told a group of students that with better education there would be less rape in South Africa. This stoked

This afternoon, Finance Minister Tito Mboweni will deliver a Budget that has taken on greater-than-usual significance. For the past few years, Mboweni has been calling

The argument for sin taxes is frequently made. Arguments against sin taxes, however, are rarely discussed, and never feature in the National Treasury’s budget speeches.

Donald Trump famously declared that ‘for every new regulation issued, at least two prior regulations [must] be identified for elimination’. This was music to the

Donald Trump’s personality disorders shouldn’t block our comprehending why so many Americans voted for him. To better appreciate how stoking politically combustible inequity narratives entrenches

Much of the USA has been struck by unusual cold, with freezing temperatures and heavy snow and ice. At least forty people have died. There

I have written before about interviewing Rashaad Fataar under a solitary avocado tree in a swathe of scrubby grass on the periphery of central Cape

The headlines on the State of the Nation Address (SONA) were somewhere between muted and dismissive. No one is left with any expectation that the