The proliferation of illegal credit providers is not just a regulatory failure but a symptom of the broader inequalities entrenched in the country’s financial system
Amid directionless policy after 30 years of democracy, the country’s prospects continue to be driven by the whims of miners and their financiers
Instead of prompting us to recapture our past, our current economic plight suggests we should break from it
The architecture of the global financial system hurts emerging market economies but the alliance has yet to offer an alternative
Power in post-apartheid South Africa lies with the party, the state and capital. The tourism minister masks her complicity with bad governance, and being part of the economic and political elite.
Without tighter capital controls, regulating the flow of money in and out of their economies, Turkey and South Africa are vulnerable to the whims of the financial markets
Corporate South Africa is rolling out the big guns to spike momentum towards a universal basic income grant that threatens to expose their sick graveyard economy
As South Africans, we must support the fight to save the Amazon, but also take a strong stand on environmental concerns that are closer to home
One of South Africa’s highest-profile intellectual vehicles appears to be a victim of drunken driving by scholars
‘Terreblanche wrote with a deep idealism in a country frequently with the highest levels of inequality’
Top-down regulatory measures come to naught, so the battle must be fought from the bottom up
Students’ fight against high university fees could be taken beyond campuses, with the final battle fought at the national treasury and Reserve Bank.
The friction between different schools of socialist thinking has produced more light than heat for South Africa.
The institution has failed to retract a document that neoliberal politicians and commentators are using to advocate state spending cuts.
The window to halt runaway climate change is closing fast this decade, with world-wide emissions cuts of 50% needed by 2020, and 90% by 2050.
The environment minister has cut funds to monitor climate change and contraventions, showing her tendency to collaborate with corporate power.
Official data tell us that class apartheid, born in April 1994 with features that include durable racism and patriarchy, is now a malevolent juvenile delinquent.As with racial apartheid two decades ago, the chains of class apartheid have growing cracks and, with enough pressure from below, can also be broken.
Is Ronald Suresh Roberts’ <i>Fit to Govern</i> fit to defend Thabo Mbeki from (mainly) "illiberal" critics of different hues? Roberts has positioned himself as a radical nationalist, and unfortunately most critiques of his book to date presume he genuinely speaks from the left, writes Patrick Bond.
For the country’s first post-Mugabe government, perhaps as early as next March if elite deal-making unfolds as promised, job number two, after restoring a semblance of democracy, is economic. Given the meltdown of Robert Mugabe’s version of crony-statist-capitalism, the new model chosen will reverberate across the world.