Yearly: 2013

Let‘s be free to choose, even when it comes to drugs


JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

WHENEVER ONE MAKES A STATEMENT, I think it’s very important that we take an appropriate way of disputing it.  I recently echoed my thoughts on Twitter, on how our governments…

Reflecting on challenges in a bittersweet world


JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

FEW WEEKS AGO I SAID MY next blog post will be about communism, whether the system would work for us today. But I’ve had a very bad week, to an extent…

Africa’s growth and challenges in a fast-growing world


JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
IN 2000, The Economist released a now‑infamous cover story on Africa titled “The hopeless continent.” At the time, Sierra Leone was engulfed in a civil war that had…