The ANC wants to double down on its industry Master Plans. The DA says it won’t pick winners and losers.  ‘The ANC,’ says the ANC,

The ANC took power with the firm conviction that state power was the route to resolving the country’s chronic socio-economic deficits. Partly, this reflected the

The most memorable newspaper headline I ever saw was in England 50 years ago to this month. It surprised me − shocked me, I suppose.

Two minor storms in the local media teacup drew my attention this week and prompt some comment. The Daily Maverick online publication didn’t publish and

The High Court in Pretoria recently ruled in favour of the Southern African Agri Initiative (Saai) to compel the South African Police Service (SAPS) to

Transparency International has classified South Africa (SA) as a “flawed democracy” in its recent Corruption Perception Index (CPI). ‘Flawed democracy’ is definitely correct – but

Russia imagines itself to be a world power, but it is just an angry bully with an inferiority complex. If you’re of a liberal mind,

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 18th April 1783 – Three-Fifths Compromise: The first instance of black slaves

Superficially, society seems to have taken the historical lesson offered by the Holocaust to heart: being ordered to engage in injustice – mass extermination, in

The Democratic Alliance (DA) prefers to remain silent on the possibilities of a coalition, as whatever it says tends to upset other members of the