Boycott?

The ANC-EFF’s relentless assault on Pretoria High School for Girls continues

Last week, on Tuesday 25 March 2025, a cavalcade of blue-light vehicles swept into the parking lot at Pretoria High School for Girls. The cars were transporting members of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Basic Education, who were conducting an oversight

Hitting bottom as a spark for change?

Our economy is in a deep slump. We are getting poorer, with our economic growth rate consistently below the rate of increase in our population. Almost all of our public enterprises, inefficient monopolies on the backbone of the economy, are

Stamped out: the case for letting go of the SAPO

In South Africa, policy reform often arrives like a postmarked letter from the past—late, smudged, and slightly irrelevant by the time it reaches its destination. So it is with the recent call by the DA GNU Minister of Communications and

ANC unveils plan B

Makone Maja and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the latest in budget negotiations and falling CEO confidence in South Africa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg82mqLjxc8

Retaliatory tariffs are bad policy

We all like to hear fighting words from the targets of Trump’s tariffs, but counter-tariffs only make a bad situation worse. Lately, we’ve had a lot of opportunity to discuss tariffs and whether they’re a good idea. US president Donald

Perceptions of race

The issue of race rears its head at every available opportunity, and yet in many (most?) cases it is used as a means of identifying a group which may in fact have little to do specifically with race. To quote

Dismantling is easy, but rebuilding is hard: Trump doesn’t have the time

Writer and political commentator Rian Malan and I have had daily email arguments about politics for many years, particularly US politics. We disagree on much, but not everything. The debates have gotten hotter since Trump 2.0, when a new word