THERE was something unbelievably cool about Nelson Mandela's South Africa. It wasn't merely that a country on the Southern tip of Africa, which had spent the past forty years in the racial stone-age, had made a giant leap forward into non-racial democracy, or that after decades of war and civil c...

TODAY'S RAND depreciation, the so-named flash crash, is the result of several factors, many of them self-inflicted. Although analysts attribute the drop as a reaction to the blow-out in the Chinese market, and the fallout from the  Nene fiasco, there are several important factors, all of which co...

IF LOCAL economic fall-out and the prospect of capital flight ultimately put paid to President Zuma's short term economic plans, take a look at what happened to the country's macro-economic outlook. After meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this month, Zuma announced that he was rep...

IT IS NO longer a question of IF but WHEN Zuma goes. The President has spent his political credibility, frittered away Polokwane, and presided over an economic fiasco entirely of his own making. Three ANC stalwarts, Barbara Hogan, Ben Turok and Mavuso Msimang have come out in support of a change...

THE ZUMA administration is the subject of a number of public embarrassments. All involve, maladministration, graft and the failure to abide by the rule of law. The latest comes with the release of a report into the 2012 Marikana massacre which led to the deaths of approximately 44 people, and mor...

South Africa's dirty secret is finally out. Capitalism is evil and all who engage with the capitalist system and its offshoot of evil, the capitalist state, are equally disagreeable individuals – corrupted prisoners of a licentious corporatised economic system which refuses to die. Okay, okay, I'...