Economics

When Will Government Stop Strangling Small Business?

When Will Government Create The Enabling Environment For Small Business Job Creation, Minister Ntshavheni?

10 hrs ago • Mpiyakhe Dhlamini

Cities Are Built By People, Not Presidential Dreams

South Africa does not need more presidential dreams. It needs space for ordinary people to act on their own.

Jun 29 • Nicholas Woode-Smith

We Need To Get The Basics Right

South Africa does not need another grand vision; it needs food, water, jobs, safety, and electricity.

Jun 22 • Nicholas Woode-Smith

South Africa’s Economic Growth Doesn’t Tell The Full Picture

An economy that is not investing in its own productive capacity is not building a future; it is consuming the present.

Jun 16 • RS Guest Author

Entrepreneurship, Not The State, Will Save South Africa

South Africa does not suffer from a shortage of entrepreneurial or creative energy; rather, it suffers from a lack of the freedom...

Jun 11 • Zakhele Mthembu

A Salute To Small Scale Farmers

This article is a salute to small scale farmers farming throughout the world and to a future for solid land reform solutions in South Africa.

Jun 10 • RS Guest Author

Is Capitalism Un-African?

Capitalism is not “unAfrican”. Pre-colonial Africa had markets, trade, private property, profit-sharing, and credit. The myth that enterprise is foreign…

Jun 4 • Ayanda S Zulu

The Deflation Myth

Inflation is not prosperity, and deflation, far from being a curse, is often a sign of a healthy economy.

Jun 2 • Econ Bro

You Own Your Home, But For How Long Can You Afford It?

Property ownership represents one of the most significant means by which ordinary households build and transmit wealth across generations.

May 22 • RS Guest Author

The Curse of Congo’s Wealth

Why the DRC’s immense wealth and massive aid inflows have produced immense poverty

May 19 • RS Guest Author

South Africans Need To Be Fireable

We can fix our unemployment. We just need to allow employers to say the simple phrase: “You’re fired!”

May 18 • Nicholas Woode-Smith

Cryptocurrency & State Overreach

South Africa should be building on its world-renowned Bitcoin payments economy, not strangling it with exchange-control bureaucracy.

May 15 • RS Guest Author

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