Columns

Parliament’s foreign affairs committee appears to be struggling to reconcile South Africa’s own legislation with its insistence that criticism of that legislation damages the national interest.

Economics & Policy

South Africa is much closer to generating enough electricity to sustain economic growth of 5% than routinely pessimistic assessments suggest. Analysis by The Common Sense shows how restoring existing generating capacity could transform the country’s economic prospects.

Columns

Simon Lincoln Reader argues that the BBC and other media are downplaying the violence in France, allowing ideological reporting standards to obscure the deeper causes of the unrest.

Politics

When it comes to oil and gas, South Africans say, "Drill baby drill!"