Category
South Africa ranks 90th out of 162 countries and territories included in the Economic Freedom of the World: 2020 Annual Report, released today by the Free Market Foundation in conjunction with Canada’s Fraser Institute.
Last year, South Africa ranked …
Continue reading
Complaints about “neutrals”, “loudmouthed CSOs”, “naysaying Jeremiahs”, “empty critics” and the like have been coming nonstop from politicians throughout my 20 plus years of public policy analysis, advocacy, and activism.
Auntie Lizzie earned her place in the annals of our …
The Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Act (ULTRA) is arguably democratic South Africa’s most important law. Yet virtually no one knows about it. A proposed amendment is currently before Parliament but only one aspect has enjoyed attention: the removal of …
Continue reading
The Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams’ proposal for the deployment of 5G makes room for extensive infringement on South African property owners’ rights. Although it is crucial for South Africa to join developed nations in the Fourth …
Continue reading
Tomorrow, the Finance Minister will appear in Parliament to seek authorization for his spending plans for the rest of the year. As is our custom, he shall also be asking that members ratify spending the Government has already made.
There …
Continue reading
Al Capone is one of the most infamous criminals in history. Countless books and movies have elevated his name to a level that even during his lifetime, few imagined possible. His crime-syndicate, the “Chicago Outfit” fought bloody gang wars over …
Continue reading
This week was crucial in the stand-off between Finance Minister Tito Mboweni and the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) Minister Pravin Gordhan for the future of failed, the state-owned airline, South African Airlines (SAA). This preposterous attempt to resurrect SAA, …
Continue reading
South Africa’s government-imposed COVID-19 lockdown was supposedly instituted to buy the government time to manage the spread of the virus and to allow the public healthcare sector to prepare its own facilities adequately for an increase in COVID-19 cases. But …
Continue reading
Nothing characterizes the failure of development aid in a better way than the naked numbers. When the African countries became independent around 1960, Africa’s share of world trade was about 5.5 percent. Today, it’s only 5 percent and that despite …
Continue reading
Save for three different years, Ghana’s economy has grown by at least four percent annually since 2000, pulling along with it a very vibrant informal sector (World Bank, 2020). This reflects in the retail trade landscape where …
Continue reading
