Columns

Last week The Common Sense ran a set of worst-case economic, currency, and rates projections for South Africa over the next decade. This week it follows up on that with the best case, arguing that each extreme is a plausible scenario based on who follows Cyril Ramaphosa as ANC leader, what the DA does, and whether the GNU holds together.

News

The latest crime stats show slight improvement but still lay bare scale of South Africa’s violence.

Columns

What is wrong with Geordin Hill-Lewis and Ryan Coetzee? Fresh off the DA’s township ward-winning success in Emfuleni, the pair engaged in the most childish and scurrilous squabble on X with Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald.

Columns

Parents at South Africa’s elite schools face a growing challenge in ensuring that ideological and political activists don’t turn their kids into narrowed, anxious, rehearsed children whose minds have been captured and stunted before ever being allowed to grow.

Columns

Koos Malan writes on a number of rulings by the ConCourt against the government and what that means for the ideology of transformationism.