If we want top-flight rewards, we must make a (better) plan

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“Out-of-order escalators, moving walkways that don’t move, chipped tiles, cracked walls … these do not make for a good first impression on the many tourists

GNU and EWC – more continuity than change

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Whether one regards it favourably or not, the most important political issue facing South Africa at present is the endurance or failure of the Government

US election prioritised economics over identity politics

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US Vice President Harris presumed that, as positive GDP, inflation and stock market trends reflected broadly improving living standards, she could become president by exploiting

Trump is deceptively sane and sensible

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When the results of the American election came rolling in, I had two reactions, one of which puzzled me for a while. My first reaction

SA Government is Hypocritical Over Iran and Israel

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The South African government and the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) have demonstrated a profound hypocrisy in their reaction to Israel’s surgical strike

Peeling back the curtain

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Is a much-beloved, global, South African charity another cog in the wheel of Iran’s “slow-boil” international strategy to destroy Israel through its use of proxies?

US election: voters’ beliefs trump reality

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An unpopular one-term US president managed to convince a significant majority of voters to give him another chance. What can we learn? There’s a lot

Who wins Gauteng will decide South Africa’s future

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On the website of Stats SA you will find a rather remarkable chart. It redraws the map of South Africa by resizing the provinces in

Regulations serve only to “protect” us from prospering

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The institution of “regulation” is so ingrained that many accept its existence uncritically, premised on the notion that it “protects” society from the excesses of

The tale of two elections and the consequences: Botswana and Mozambique

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Last week, for the first time ever, Botswana elected a new President who was not from the party that has ruled since independence in 1966.