COLUMNS
Defusing the Joblessness Timebomb
South Africa’s youth face record unemployment, but a Free Market Foundation plan could offer a lifeline through labour law exemptions.
Columns
November 14, 2025
8 min read
Trump And The Forty Afrikaners
James Myburgh says we should look at what is being done (or not done) rather than what is being said.
Columns
November 12, 2025
8 min read
A Reckoning for Journalism in the West
BBC scandal will have significant implications.
Columns
November 11, 2025
8 min read
The Flawed Premise of the GNU
President Ramaphosa’s GNU retreat masked deep policy divides as opposition parties traded conviction for consensus.
Columns
November 9, 2025
9 min read
A Ten-Year Bet: How the US-India Pact Reshapes Indo-Pacific Power
Washington and New Delhi’s new ten-year defense pact signals a deeper strategic convergence that could redefine the Indo-Pacific balance of power for a generation.
Columns
November 9, 2025
7 min read
After 10 Years of Decline, Has South Africa Turned The Corner?
This is the unedited transcript of a keynote delivered by Adi Enthoven at the University of Stellenbosch Thought Leader Lecture on 4 November 2025. In his remarks, Enthoven contended that South Africa has turned the corner, with reforms in power, freight, and water systems driving large-scale private investment and reviving market optimism.
Columns
November 9, 2025
15 min read
Tobacco Bill is Extensively Flawed
New bill is an attack on personal liberty.
Columns
November 9, 2025
10 min read
Open Letter Lunacy
The recent Afrikaner “open letter” to Donald Trump is the latest in a long-line of strange public missives
Columns
November 7, 2025
3 min read
The Common Sense’s Diary
Wolvaardt shines, spooks bungle, US Supreme Court on tariffs, Trump’s Africa Crusade, Ramaphosa’s resignation, Communist takeover in New York, and South Africans have less sex
Columns
November 5, 2025
6 min read
You Don’t Mess with the Zohran
Zohran Mamdani’s rise to mayoral frontrunner in New York City signals a seismic shift in progressive urban politics.
Columns
November 4, 2025
8 min read
