Yearly: 2020

Covid-19 reminds us of the importance of effective border controls


JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

PANIC is now at its peak around the world over Covid-19.

It’s an unpleasant situation – that is maiming and will maim the economy all over the world.

Just like…

Without a stronger opposition, South Africa’s democracy is doomed


JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

IT’S been twenty-five years since the founding of a democratic South Africa, and the African National Congress (ANC) still commands electoral support.

The followers of the ANC must be…

Globalization, the coronavirus and South Africa


JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

THERE are no solutions to our problems, there are only trade-offs, economist Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution once remarked.

Sowell was absolutely correct. What we believe to be…

Will Mboweni do what is right in his budget speech?


JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

SOUTH Africa’s economy is not growing at a speed experienced by other major emerging markets. The growth levels for 2020 projected by major financial institutions are disheartening. The…

Reflections on Ramaphosa’s AU chairmanship in 2020


JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

A WEEK ago, President Cyril Ramaphosa took over the 2020 chairmanship of the African Union (AU). This means South Africa will be at the helm of Africa’s affairs…

Davos 2020: The focus should be on poverty, not inequality


JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

THE world’s elite, heads of states, heads of NGOs, heads of businesses, leading journalists, are in Davos, Switzerland this week, for the annual meeting of the World Economic…