

Can the ANC keep benefiting at SA’s expense?
- By Shawn Hagedorn
- . Mar 17, 2025
Current budgeting difficulties evidence how ANC and SA interests are tightly linked, whereas US-SA relations reflect ANC indulgences which are as reckless as they are

The best and worst of Trump: Climate and trade
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Mar 16, 2025
In just under two months, President Trump has helped to save the world from one destructive folly but threatened it with another. He seems incoherent

The proposed 2025 budget is an insulting failure
- By Nicholas Woode-Smith
- . Mar 15, 2025
South Africa’s delayed 2025 Budget is no win for ordinary South Africans. And despite what some politicians may argue, it isn’t even a worthy “compromise.”

Smarmy Carney looking for a barney
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Mar 14, 2025
There once was a BBC journalist – a Canadian liberal who was also an academic and wrote for London’s The Observer newspaper – who one

The pathway for a new political party: The road to success for a political alternative in SA
- By Sean McLaughlin
- . Mar 14, 2025
Amidst South Africa’s political realignment, less well-considered is how a new political force could emerge to replace the African National Congress (ANC). I have written

Budget 2025: SA cannot afford business as usual
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Mar 14, 2025
Budget 2025 is the right hill to die on, for the Democratic Alliance. It cannot tolerate business as usual. What, exactly, is the point of

Challenging Pierre de Vos’s EWC pseudo-jurisprudence (Part 4)
- By Martin van Staden
- . Mar 13, 2025
Without courts that are respected and obeyed, constitutionalism – as a limitation on state scope and power – cannot work. But this principle can be

America and Europe: You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone
- By Nicholas Lorimer
- . Mar 13, 2025
The Transatlantic Alliance – which has existed in some form since 1940 – seems shakier than ever. Europe is angry at what it sees as

The benefits of exporting stability
- By Greg Mills
- . Mar 12, 2025
The inauguration in Montevideo’s Plaza Independencia offers a flashback to the 1960s: a sea of flags some displaying the hammer and sickle, banners with left-wing

Budget speech or no speech today: The VAT fight and our new politics
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Mar 12, 2025
The Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana, may or may not deliver the Budget speech later today. Our politics are in a strange new place. For the