14 February 2022 - With steadily declining economic freedom SA fell in the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World index from 58th to 84th between 2000 and last year and the concomitant lack of economic opportunities and growth, it is little surprise that the government is always looking for something, or someone, to blame.
7 February 2022 - For millennia the dominant thinking throughout human society was, ‘force over voluntary interactions.’ Regardless of the country, the adage of ‘might makes right’ was the guiding rule upon which people interacted with each other.
7 February 2022 - That the number of unemployed has risen from 7.1-million to more than 10-million, and those on welfare from 16-million to 18-million, over the past decade is unfortunately no surprise (“Government will have no excuses when SA’s beleaguered middle class collapses”, February 2).
Will the post-Brexit trade deal reconcile differing visions in the City of London? While UK business and traditional bankers had backed Remain, others dreamed of making the City a global-scale Singapore.