The problem with Trump

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The problem with President Donald Trump is that his opponents are even worse than he is. In 2016, Americans were faced with a dreadful choice,

Is economic reform politically impossible in SA?

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Earlier this week South African Airways (SAA) was placed into business rescue, a form of bankruptcy protection from creditors to effect a turnaround. This is

A troubling glimpse of the future

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To understand how a phenomenon will unfold in the future, a good starting point is to look to how it developed in the past, and

Time to terminate present empowerment policies

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In 1994, the ANC put a shiny but misleading gloss on its proposed BEE, employment equity, and land reform policies. It said that: BEE would

When will SA wake up?

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We keep being told South Africa is a ticking time bomb of pent-up fury, but somnolence might be our greater challenge. Not that we are

A better route to empowerment

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On 27 November, investor marketing agency Ince Communications Agency entered into a deal with media entrepreneur Andile Khumalo, significantly transforming its shareholding structure. Ince was

Without growth, there will be nothing left to transform

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President Ramaphosa has cracked the whip on the private sector in his latest weekly newsletter, admonishing those in business for not transforming quickly enough. Despite

The great SA property dilemma

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One of these days in the not too distant future I am going to have to sell my house and move into somewhere smaller, more

The strange case of the new Eskom CEO

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The surprise announcement of Andre de Ruyter as the new CEO of Eskom was soon followed by Eskom’s dismal half-year report. De Ruyter must be

South Africans reject Zimbabwean paradise

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When the liberator of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, died in September 2019 in a Singaporean hospital, the event was followed by countless tributes from South Africans