OPINIONS
Dispatch from Washington
Richard Tren writes on the view from Washington on the latest global developments.
27.9.2026 |
Richard Tren
How Racial Ideology Continues to Poison the University of Cape Town
Is peak woke over? Not if you look at the ongoing racial madness at UCT.
27.9.2026 |
Richard Wilkinson
When Trouble in Mozambique Crosses the Border
South Africans can't ignore what's happening in Mozambique.
27.9.2026 |
Paula Slier
The Great Qualification Hoax: How the QCTO Turned Workplace Training into a Bureaucratic Circus
Dr Ivor Blumenthal writes on how South Africa’s workplace training reforms have expanded bureaucracy, inflated costs, and left employers footing the bill.
26.9.2026 |
Ivor Blumenthal
Threats to Private Property Rights in South Africa
Below is the full text of a speech delivered by David Ansara, CEO of the Free Market Foundation (FMF), at the White Cross Project Conference in Washington on 25 September 2026.
26.9.2026 |
David Ansara
Lamola’s Ill-Considered Jaunt to the US
What is South Africa’s foreign minister doing in the United States, meeting with the hard left? Experience shows it won’t end well.
25.9.2026 |
Simon Lincoln Reader
Rural schools Are Being Kept Back Because of Satellite Policy
How Starlink could help a local school for poor children in rural Mpumalanga.
25.9.2026 |
Louis Struwig
South Africa in 2034: The Latest Scenarios
Advisory firm Frans Cronje Private Clients, in conjunction with The Common Sense, sketches three political scenarios for South Africa between today and 2034 each of which delivers a very different set of economic outcomes.
24.9.2026 |
Frans Cronje and Bheki Mahlobo
The Common Sense’s Diary
Ramaphosa unbowed, unpack what’s actually going on, the Americans are trying to help, organised business and the government are beating them back, the economic cost, the moral cost is even greater, splitting the bad people from the good people, inverted reality, South Africa’s people are on the good side, the bad foreign minister and his bad American friends, James Lindsay gets what’s up, this is why the ANC is down, Ramaphosa should have been in Houston but will double down on the wrong ideas instead.
23.9.2026 |
The Editorial Board
Agricultural Business Confidence Up but Future Concerns Remain
There is much positive sentiment in South Africa's agriculture sector but there are a number of serious risks lurking.
22.9.2026 |
Wandile Sihlobo
