By Andile Zulu What pragmatic and impactful reforms are needed to end load-shedding and solve South Africa’s energy crisis? This is a difficult and complicated question that occupies the minds of many South Africans. In the midst of contentious debates…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 06 Aug 2023 The very language of trade negotiations is the language of war. Once concluded, the trade agreements give way, with astonishing cynicism, to the language of double-speak and deception. “The problem…
By Jeff Rudin Most South Africans agree that the country is in a mess and that the ANC must go if there is to be any chance of a second building of a new South Africa. Re-birthing the South Africa so…
By Jeff Rudin I would go further than Mail & Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Ron Derby. He invited recipients of M&G Mornings (26 June) to read what he described as Tembeka Ngcukaitobi’s “honest dissertation of the South African story”. More than being “honest”,…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 11 Jul 2023 Out of a group of 15 classmates who matriculated together in 1960, only three have remained in South Africa. The group still stays in touch, with those outside the…
By Boaventura Monjane and Anesu Dera | Daily Maverick | 02 Jul 2023 On 28 and 29 June, community members, popular formations and civil society organisations from across the African continent gathered in Johannesburg to participate in the African Regional Indaba…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 27 Jun 2023 Understanding the background to the neoliberal political economy that underpins government policy choices is a starting point for addressing the changes needed to reduce the excesses of our country’s poverty, unemployment…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 26 Jun 2023 The first of two articles examining water-related health crises in South Africa asks why we have learnt nothing from previous crises and why our government, having responded to each new crisis…
By Jeff Rudin | Daily Maverick | 25 May 2023 The claims of the green economy, together with the green economy’s long history, provide the essential backdrop to the question of why, after a gestation of 34 years, it still…
By Andile Zulu | Mail & Guardian | 18 MAY 2023 Founded in July 2013, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) appeared as a compelling alternative in an increasingly stagnant electoral landscape. Rejecting the stale and impotent liberalism of the Democratic Alliance (DA),…
