What will help poor black South Africans
What will help poor black South Africans
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
Poverty remains a big challenge around the world. Africa our continent, is categorised as world’s poorest.
It’s unfortunate. However, we should remember that there has been good progress in…
Pray for death of the EFF
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
ECONOMIC Freedom Fighters (EFF)’s co-founder, Floyd Shivambu, has resigned from the EFF, and joined Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party. The resignation is a blow to the EFF,…
Mkhwanazi’s tough policing in KZN
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
FAMED economist Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution once said, “If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.” It…
The desperate EFF and MK
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
IN the recent election on May 29 this year, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)’s support declined to 10% of the national vote, from 11% in 2019. The decline…
Israel’s fight against evil
COMO, ITALY
I was in Israel recently for a journalistic mission, along with other South African journalists and policy analysts. I returned from the trip better informed about the ongoing war…
Reflections on my visit to America
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
I just came back from the United States of America (USA) – the world’s economic and military superpower. A nation that global investor, author of a new book…
No national dialogue please!
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
FORMER President Thabo Mbeki has called for a national dialogue after May 29 election. This dialogue, according Former President Mbeki, would focus on how South Africa should move…
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…