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It seemed too good to be true. A diamond-rich, corruption-free, democratic, prosperous, and peaceful African country with a tradition of peaceful transfer of presidential power (the incumbent president voluntarily leaves office a year before the next general election). It was.
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Following the discussions about the NHI (National Health Insurance), I am struck by how little regard is given to self-ownership. To preclude the possibility of ownership by someone else, self-ownership is a necessity. Black Africans were enslaved in the Americas …
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The news from the Central African Republic (CAR) is rarely good. The country has been involved in an on-and-off war for at least 20 years. It has been rated as having the lowest human development in the world. It is …
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When seeking care from a hospital or doctor, patients will now be required to present their proof of registration with the National Health Insurance (NHI) Fund to access healthcare services. Registration can be refused. Never before have South Africans’ constitutional …
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Every passenger on every South African Express (SAX) flight is obscenely subsidized with money diverted from poverty relief and taxpayers by approximately R3,850 (R7,700 return). Assuming 50 passengers per flight on average, this is the equivalent to two RDP houses …
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Instead of righting the wrongs of apartheid, Expropriation Without Compensation (EWC) will perpetuate the evils. Apartheid’s greatest travesty, of which one of the worst legacies is the specter of EWC today, was expropriation without compensation of black held land. Instead …
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Marriage is an institution common to all cultures. Very often it’s accompanied by transfers – in most cases in the form of payments – between the families of the groom and the bride.
These payments can be categorized into two: …
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By hanging the fate of South Africa on the shoulders of people like Cyril Ramaphosa and Busisiwe Mkhwebane, we are setting ourselves up for failure. Only reinvigorated institutions that do not depend on the whims of political personalities can arrest …
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The crackdown on internet fraudsters by the Nigerian government is in the news again after the controversy surrounding the prosecution of singer, Afeez Fashola (also known as Naira Marley) by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Fashola is facing …
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Today’s Wall Street Journal carried an edifying op-ed penned by Mokgweetsi Masisi, the President of Botswana. That Southern African country of a little over two and a quarter million inhabitants is being overrun by elephants. In the mid-1990s, President Masisi …
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