For years South African presidents have been regulars at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, a Swiss ski resort. The meeting in Davos

Last month, a newspaper article claimed that renewables were the only thing standing between Eskom and a total collapse of the grid. The same could

I wrote this article 5 years ago and I thought it was worth revisiting in light of the disintegration of the new dawn. It reminds

The announcement of Nersa’s 18.65% tariff hike for Eskom came just after I had finished the first draft of this article. It emphasised my argument

In 1653, controversial English statesman Oliver Cromwell scathingly dismissed the minimalist parliament he’d established to draft election plans for a new reformed parliament, which included

We South Africans are a beleaguered lot. We’ve had to watch the endless and unavoidable media attention garnered by the ANC over its Electoral Conference,

Businessman Rob Hersov recently gave an interview challenging cabinet ministers to unleash South Africa’s onshore shale gas resources. Unsurprisingly, ill-informed protest followed. The controversial subject

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 10th January 1927 – Fritz Lang’s futuristic film Metropolis is released in

South Africa’s electricity crisis is primarily a crisis of monopoly and regulation, not a crisis of corruption and incompetence.   Corruption and incompetence are foreseeable risks

Yet again, the ANC has put the Reserve Bank into political play. At its recent National Conference, the party agreed that the central bank’s mandate