18 October 2018 - The scale of South Africa’s discontinuity in executive leadership is undoubtedly one of the biggest contributing factors to the ANC’s failure to deliver over the last nine years.
Media
Every week we reach hundreds of thousands of people through placing arguments in the media in support of the principles we stand for. No other advocacy group in the country does as much as we do to promote support for policies that defend your right, and that of your community, to make decisions about your own life free from counter-productive government interference.
18 October 2018 - You have more “identities” than you might think when you’re riled up by a political or cultural moment.
18 October 2018 - Facts are indeed stubborn things. Properly respected, facts cannot be ‘nuanced’ or ‘contextualised’ to support something which they do not provide evidence for, no matter how popular or appealing it is.
17 October 2018 - Shorn of the NDR albatross and with different policies in place, South Africa could have matched the growth rates notched up by other emerging markets between 2010 and 2017.
16 October 2018 - The stakes are high. A misshapen land reform policy, which undermines property protections in the economy, will not only hit the farming sector, but would reverberate throughout the economy.
15 October 2015 - It has always been SA’s fate to be a profoundly mistaken society, thought to be so divided, its disparate parts so at odds, with so little in common, that only some imposed “solution” could ever succeed in cementing it. The people, by this reasoning, are always wrong.
14 October 2018 - One of the tasks confronting the new finance minister, Tito Mboweni, will be to puncture the balloon of fantasy surrounding the national health insurance (NHI) system envisaged by the African National Congress (ANC) government.
13 October 2018 - A badly prepared policy huo guo bubbles away. It draws on a few decontextualised and desiccated ideas, mismatches them with others, and reaches a stodgy, incoherent conclusion. It makes for policy indigestion – but if this is where our policy makers are determined to go, it’s a lethal brew we might all have to eat.
11 October 2018 - The Jobs Summit agreement offered nothing to the people who are trying to set up small construction companies, coffee shops, kota stands and fashion studios. Nothing else will matter if ordinary people are not put front and centre of business creation.
11 October 2018 - Becoming a prosperous, safe country for all who live in it will be difficult, but it is possible. Like the American moonshot and our transition to a democracy, it will take the combined effort of all citizens and single-minded political leadership to reach these goals.
11 October 2018 - The foundation of any meaningful debate must be a reliance on evidence. Regrettably, although the debate has gathered momentum, it remains mired in half-truths and assumptions.
11 October 2018 - Communities should expect to benefit primarily from the general economic expansion a healthy mining sector can deliver. The third iteration of the charter gives inadequate credit to the natural benefits of mining: employment; work experience and on-the-job upskilling; local revenues; upstream and downstream development; and the contribution to the fiscus.