IMAGINE an alternative future if you will. A future in which our country instead of wedding itself to BRICS maintained its focus on leading the African continent — the BRICS bloc is really nothing more than a proxy for China's controversial 'belt...
Category: Development
BRICS neo-colonialism demonstrated by Putin’s threat of war against South Africa
REVELATIONS of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's temper tantrums, with a threat of armed aggression against the Republic, including a possible declaration of war, have come to light, after a judge ordered that President Ramaphosa's affidavit on an ICC arrest warrant be made public this week. The...
Putin presents Pretoria with a not-so-pretty pickle
NO SOONER had Pretoria (Tshwane) shown the world that it cared very little for the UN Charter codifying the major principles of international relations, from sovereign equality of States to the prohibition of the use of force in international relations, it found itself facing a legal problem pres...
Flogging an Eskom dead horse? You’ve got it all wrong
SO LONG as this country myopically persists with it's strange obsession in maintaining the Eskom energy monopoly, there will be load-shedding and blackouts. Consumers desperately require choices in energy provider, options on who can connect their home grid, to power the toaster and microwave ove...
Blame for the energy crisis needs to be placed fairly and squarely upon the failed ideology of the ANC and its coalition partners.
In many respects the ANC policies of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and its flipside Radical Economic Transformation (RET) resemble the policies of Nico Diederichs’ ‘reddingsdaadbond’ whose Nationalists of the 1940s viewed the state as the primary instrument whereby the Afrikaner capitalist wou...
SA Astonishing failure to plan transition away from ICE
EVEN if there was no war in Ukraine and no embargo against Russian oil and gas, South Africa would find itself in a pretty pickle, forced to import fuel directly. It is not just our strategic fuel reserves which have been plundered, but our capacity to refine crude in the face of a global transit...