Monthly: December 2015

South Africa’s obsession with race will impede its progress


JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

AFTER President Jacob Zuma’s flip-flops with the finance ministry last week – sacking Nhlanhla Nene as head of the ministry – and appointing the African National Congress’ backbencher, Desmond van…

The solution to South Africa’s gun-related crime is not tighter gun-control laws


JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

IT WAS a night of horror in our house at Roodepoort, Johannesburg, two weeks ago. Two armed men stormed into the house, assaulted us, and robbed us our cell…