Monthly: April 2024

What developing nations desperately need

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

THE IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington DC are now behind us. On the agenda were discussions on inflation, global climate finance, geopolitics.

Judging by conflicts in Ukraine, Africa,…

South Africa’s taxation problems go deeper than e-tolls

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

I celebrated the end of Gauteng e-tolls this past week. It was a pleasure to see a government system being shut down. Such occasions are rare. Politicians don’t…

Gaza war: Israel alone?

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

I last visited Israel in November 2018, with a group of South African journalists who had been invited for a study of Israel and the Israel-Palestine conflict. Visiting…