The Presidential Climate Change Coordinating Commission is tasked with shifting the economy to a ‘low-carbon, climate resilient economy and society’
Stocktake at the end of a momentous year shows that the ruling party holds all the cards but has little room for manoeuvre
Attempts to trade amnesty for information about state corruption have caused conflict as well as controversy in other countries.
Joe Biden doesn’t have the mojo needed to restore the US – so he needs a full house to appoint those who do, writes Richard Calland.
President Cyril Ramaphosa needs to hold ‘fireside chats’ and have more power and institutional muscle around him, writes Richard Calland
One of them will have to fall if the ANC is to win back the confidence of the electorate — so it can’t be Ramaphosa
The president needs to make hard, perhaps hazardous, choices for the post-Covid economy, writes Richard Calland
Responses to terrible inequality, climate change and the Covid-19 economic crisis will decide this
Opposition parties and ANC ‘factions’ will attempt to use the crisis to their advantage
Leaders need to grapple with the wicked problem of how to ease out
of the lockdown