To while away the lockdown, President Cyril Ramaphosa has been dabbling in long-distance international diplomacy. His most brotherly love was reserved for his fellow communists,

President Cyril Ramaphosa, according to recent surveys, enjoys a 67% approval rating at this time of Covid-19. Ramaphosa as leader is an illusion. This illusion

The collapse of economic life coupled with declining services has a severe impact on the life of someone like Sophie. Sophie is a 58-year-old domestic

I am writing this on Monday 27 April 2020. This is the date every year on which we remember South Africa’s turn to democracy, and

In his essay, The Parable of the Broken Window, the French political theorist, Frédéric Bastiat, stated that the difference between a good economist and a

The decision to move South Africa’s lockdown from the restrictive level 5 to the marginally diluted level 4 has been met with a variety of

The lockdown is costing South Africa’s already crippled economy an estimated R13bn to R20bn a day.  But, despite its heavy costs, it is unable to

In the midst of massive and rare occurrences that have a severe impact – ‘Black Swan’ events, – forecasts have little credibility. The key determining

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak, we’ve been hearing all about the case fatality rate of the disease, which in some countries, including the

It is fashionable these days to decry the role of the Western Allies in destroying Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime on the grounds that the Russians