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Poverty Is A Choice

The trajectory of an individual’s financial life remains fundamentally governed by each and every decision they make in response to those realities.

3 hrs ago • RS Guest Author

March And March Could Become More Than A Protest Movement

March and March’s shift from protest movement to civil society organisation could offer poor black South Africans a new model of grassroots…

Aug 20 • Ayanda S Zulu

State Capacity: Africa’s Problem Masquerading As A Solution

Africa does not need stronger states. It needs fewer obstacles between people and prosperity.

Aug 19 • Econ Bro

The Emergence of Authority.

Power arises because institutions mediate dependency. Its legitimacy depends on whether it expands or diminishes human agency.

Aug 18 • Bryan Theunissen

Naledi Pandor Said the Quiet Part Out Loud About Akademia

Afrikaner achievements expose the failures of the ANC-in-government, and Akademia is becoming an increasingly uncomfortable example of what can be built…

Aug 17 • PIET DU PLESSIS

You Cannot Have The Digital Economy Without Data Centres

South Africa cannot demand economic growth, technological development and mass housing while opposing the infrastructure that makes them possible.

Aug 17 • Nicholas Woode-Smith

South Africa Has Yet to Reckon with What Lockdown Cost Us

It cannot be this easy to strip people of their civil liberties, to cause economic wreckage, to hurt the very humanity of people without ever having to…

Aug 16 • RS Guest Author

The South African Fuel Levy Cut And What It Reveals About Government

“The government knows precisely what to do to make life easier for South Africans: tax less.”

Aug 15 • Econ Bro

The GNU's Jobs disaster

Join Nicholas Woode-Smith, Zakhele Mthembu and Ayanda Zulu as they unpack some of the most pressing issues of the week.

Aug 14 • Rational Standard Editor

South Africa Needs AI Accountability Without a Permission Slip

Good rules should make accountability unavoidable without making experimentation exceptional.

Aug 14 • RS Guest Author

Is the Right in South Africa Now Woke Too?

Has South Africa’s political right adopted the language and tactics of the woke left, or is Afrikaner self-protection something fundamentally different?

Aug 13 • PIET DU PLESSIS

What Schools Refuse to Teach About Political Islam

A curriculum shaped by monopoly interests, whether religious, ideological or bureaucratic, cannot produce free and informed citizens.

Aug 12 • RS Guest Author

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