It was never going to be easy to steer the South African ship of state after the Jacob Zuma years, even though Cyril Ramaphosa’s rise to the... →
Cicero, the highly gifted orator and lawyer - he of the heydays of the Roman Empire, once argued that the health of the people, the health of... →
The economic and social crisis induced by Covid-19 is unfolding in different ways across the country. New evidence from the NIDS-CRAM survey... →
On 26 November President Félix Tshisekedi concluded a three-week presidential consultation with political, economic, trade union, corporate and... →
Covid-19 has turned everything upside down. The global lockdowns, the stresses on weak health systems, the absence of fiscal space and social... →
For years, South Africans have had a vague awareness that some of Eskom’s coal stations are approaching the end of their useful lives and that... →
Individual utilitarianism is seen as primordial in conventional Western economic tradition. However, individualism does not always lead to better... →
The missile attack by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front on Eritrea in mid-November transformed an internal Ethiopian crisis into a transnational... →
The COVID-19 crisis is one of many indicators that we live in dangerous and uncertain times. Others include the international community’s struggle... →
