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Reflections on IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook Report and Trump’s tariffs
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
IN its latest World Economic Outlook Report released this past week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its global economic growth forecast to 2.8% for year 2025, down…
The economics and politics of the VAT hike
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
FINANCE Minister Enoch Godongwana has stated that he sees no alternative to the upcoming Value Added Tax (VAT) hike. He argued in court papers filed last Wednesday that…
The GNU is no solution
SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES
I writing this column from San Francisco, California, where I’ve been since April 2. What a remarkable and beautiful country the United States is! Everyone here seems…
If Trump imposes sanctions
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration has urged the Johannesburg Council not to rename Sandton Drive after Palestinian activist Leila Khaled. The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) will…
The ANC must go
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) last month was a huge disappointment. I had expected new and fresh ideas from Ramaphosa as leader of the…
Chickens have come home to roost
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
SOUTH Africa’s foreign policy is at a crossroads. This is thirty years since South Africa became a democracy.
America’s new President, Donald Trump, has put South Africa’s pro-Iran foreign…
The problem is not AfriForum
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
IN times of deceit and propaganda campaigns, the bravest and patriotic are those who choose to speak the truth. They are special citizens. We should honour them while…
A conference Ramaphosa should attend
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
I’M writing this column from cold London, Great Britain. The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference that I had come here for, is now behind. It took place…
Don’t tell me I have no solutions!
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
THERE are people who say that I do not propose solutions to South Africa’s socioeconomic problems. That all I do is criticise South Africa’s government.Totally wrong. 100% wrong!
I’ve…
Wrong G20 theme, South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
DURING his special address at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, two weeks ago, President Cyril Ramaphosa called for a global pursuit for “equality”.
I was not…