Thoughts after the Solidarity race law conference
Thoughts after the Solidarity race law conference
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
I WAS immensely honored to participate in a conference against South Africa’s race-based laws organised by Solidarity in Pretoria this week. It really was a pleasure to be…
No more government-supplied healthcare!
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
POLITICIANS thrive on the routine of meddling in people’s lives. To maintain power, influence, and control, politicians do anything to disrupt the operations of the private sector or…
The problems of South Africa’s sky-high unemployment and inflation
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
THE unemployment crisis
The latest unemployment numbers released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) last week, depressed me again. The official unemployment rate rose to 32.9% in the first…
An open letter to Andre de Ruyter
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
DEAR Andre,
I read your book! Well done!
I thought I should write to you. My letter will be simple and straightforward, no sophistication at all, just a simple thank…
The smart people Ramaphosa should listen to on public policy
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
LAST week on Twitter, chief economist of Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), Isaah Mhlanga, suggested that Eskom, South Africa’s troubled state-owned electricity supply company, be privatised.
With his tweet, Mhlanga…
A market economy will uplift South Africa’s poor
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa’s Energy Minister, Gwede Mantashe, has blamed the private sector for South Africa’s blackouts that have destroyed businesses and jobs. Surprised? I am not.
Politicians who believe in…
An open letter to Herman Mashaba
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
DEAR Mr. Mashaba,
After hearing that your political party Action South Africa (Action SA) will hold its inaugural policy conference in September this year, I thought I should write…
Preying on the poor
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
SOUTH Africa’s national election is now a year away. Between now and then, politicians will be hard at work campaigning for votes. What that means, is that they…
Malema must learn from Mandela
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
THE Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is mobilising a national shutdown for next week. The protest is against everything that the EFF believes is wrong about South Africa -…
My dream for Africa
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
WHEN Martin Luther King Jr. made the famous I Have a Dream speech in 1963, he dreamed of the United States of America where people would not be…