Many admit that the South African general election held on 29 May 2024 was both a wake-up call for dozing political parties which some have

It is widely accepted that the US faces a housing crisis. The nature, causes and potential solutions to this crisis are a matter of dispute,

This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 22nd August 1485 – The Battle of Bosworth Field “Battle of Bosworth

This past weekend was one of those that happens periodically, when one feels truly proud to be a South African. There were three big sporting

The recent controversies over “racism” at Pretoria High School for Girls and Chidimma Adetshina’s participation in Miss South Africa reveal an illness in South African

The ANC’s poor election result, combined with high unemployment and negligible economic growth, is forcing the party to look afresh at some of its ideas.

Former President Jacob Zuma’s MK Party was undoubtedly the star performer of this year’s elections. The previous benchmarks set by new parties like COPE (7.42%),

Kamala Harris’s economic manifesto amounts to populist railing against reality. Her proposals on “price gouging” demonstrate her poor grasp of markets. Kamala Harris, the Democratic

Last week, I wrote about competing conceptions of citizenship, and how this was expressed in the recent case of Chidimma Adetshina and her participation (or

There are no realistic scenarios in which our domestic economy can sustain adequate employment growth. It seems reasonable to presume that the way to increase