

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

Expropriation Act: deepening the deficiency
- By Michael Morris
- . Mar 11, 2025
This piece, written in response to two articles published in the first week in February, was offered to, but not published by, the Mail &

JD Vance’s preposterous Munich speech
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Mar 11, 2025
Last month, JD Vance berated European leaders in Munich over “the threat from within”. His speech was nuts. At the Munich Security Conference held in

No, negotiation, compromise and bridge-building are not a national speciality
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Mar 10, 2025
South Africa has a unique ability to build bridges and find compromises. Its political miracle in the 1990s was in the ability of people across

The Lie of the Land – a response to Nkanyiso Gumede
- By Hermann Pretorius
- . Mar 10, 2025
I wrote this article in response to a question posed by researcher Nkanyiso Gumede of the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies in his

North West … where nobody works
- By Kenneth Mokgatlhe wa Kgwadi
- . Mar 10, 2025
People do not work in North West Province. It’s not just that more than half the working-age population is unemployed − the government doesn’t work

Ramaphosa, not AfriForum, should be charged with treason
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Mar 9, 2025
The Hawks are investigating dockets of high treason against AfriForum and Solidarity. This is because of their high-level meetings in Washington with Trump’s administration. They

The Budget and the Beckhams’ toaster
- By Paddi Clay
- . Mar 9, 2025
Presumably, on 12 March, the new date set for the Budget Speech, we will officially find out who won in the battle of wills between

BEE helps few, harms many: a response to Index of Race Law critics
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Mar 9, 2025
The recent News24 article, List of ‘race laws’: a tool for insight or a catalyst for misunderstanding?, published on 25 February, contained criticism of the