It is time to fret over the rand and the damage its continued depreciation — particularly at this pace — will do to the country
We are slap bang in the middle of a battle between two of the traditional global superpowers in the US and Russia and not appreciating the precarious position we are in. This is not an ANC NEC debate over a weekend at the St George Hotel in Centurion
We are now in the middle of a new Cold War, and it’s a frightening prospect given our interests across both worlds
Combined Kwazulu-Natal and Gauteng are the most urgent problems for the ANC heading into next year’s polls
When the president merged the mining and energy departments under his most powerful lieutenants he made a decision that would come back to bite him
Turning around Eskom is an operational job and I suspect that policy statements on the future energy mix will only get the prospective CEO into a deep layer of trouble.
South Africans should not have to rely on heroes like Patricia de Lille to save us, we need functioning and fit for purpose institutions
It’s something to ruminate on as we sit in stage six of load-shedding, further weakening our fiscal position
We must remember that this alliance was forged with the blessing of all and sundry, including ‘Big Business’, the most influential of lobby groups in this country
There’s a dangerous romanticism to the struggle that we shouldn’t allow opportunists to exploit, despite our disappointment with a government that is battling to meet the most basic service needs of its people