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…
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…
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…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
AS WE ENTER 2020, I remind you again that South Africa’s economy under Cyril Ramaphosa’s African National Congress (ANC) is in a serious crisis. Anybody who reads about…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
IN contrast to 30 years ago, the world is a better place in consideration of almost all the metrics of human development including economic growth, healthcare, access to…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
THIS week, the University of Cape Town (UCT) Senate is set to reconsider whether to support an ill-thought resolution passed in relation to Israel’s academic institutions in March…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
AS a nation, South Africa needs to learn to unashamedly confront and admit its post-1994 socioeconomic failures. The confrontation and admission of these failures need to be visible…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
THE outcomes of the recent African National Congress national executive committee meeting presented by the notorious Ace Magashule this week were not surprising – dull and vague. It…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
I WAS fortunate to be amongst the delegates at the Finnovex Southern Africa conference in Fourways, Johannesburg, two weeks ago. I must say, I was amazed by the…
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
AFTER months of contentious diplomacy and protests—some of which turned deadly, the Sudanese Transitional Military Council (TMC) and the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) signed a constitutional declaration to…