An error so basic only educated economists could make it
Three weeks ago, Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni delivered his supplementary budget to a chorus of calls for a post-Covid-19 economic recovery plan. With South
Crime wave on SA farms – a crisis within a crisis within a crisis
One of the more obscene stories of recent months came from the farming region of Weenen in KwaZulu-Natal. The Ismail family, well-known and respected cattle
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 11th July 1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is
EFF hogwash on land custodianship
Floyd Shivambu, deputy president of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), is at it again. In March 2020 he hailed the Covid-19 pandemic, saying this would
The fight over the post-Covid-19 future
The battle over post-Covid-19 economic policy has begun with diametrically opposed policy approaches from organised business and the African National Congress (ANC) being released last
Booze ban: rule by diktat
With a wave of his presidential hand, the command was given: alcohol sales will once again be banned, with immediate effect. Minutes later, the new
Why no debate on Helen Zille’s remarks about post-1994 race law?
‘That which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary’ John Milton, Areopagitica (1644) Counterpoint, a new occasional feature on the Daily
A climate activist apologises for Project Fear
About time too. Michael Shellenberger, a self-confessed ‘climate activist’, last month issued a ‘formal apology’ for the ‘climate scare’ environmentalists had ‘created over the last
Removing statues, rewriting history
Alistair Cooke said in one of his Letters from America (which was broadcast on the BBC for 58 years) that it was a cruel mistake
Should Oliver Tambo’s statue be pulled down?
Should we pull down the statue of Oliver Tambo at Oliver Tambo Airport in Johannesburg? This thought crossed my mind as I read a two-page