Trade agreements: The little known agent of global inequality
In the name of free trade, countries went to war in the 1700s and 1800s. Today, trade is the continuation of the politics of war by other means
Europe’s claimed lead in the renewable energy transition offers Africa little to follow
The loans, which hike up debt, the paltry loss and damage pledges, companies investing in oil and gas and the rise of the far right all show that the EU and US climate action is a mirage
Racism and moral superiority: The left’s latest contribution to confusion
The very idea that BEE can empower most — let alone all — Africans in a capitalist country is a nonsense that ought to have been subject to instant and constant exposure by the left
A different, better South Africa needs more than just blaming the ANC
We need to begin any analysis with the realisation that capitalism has few winners
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi’s keynote address ignores some facts
The advocate’s speech on inequality, apartheid, the ANC and optimism at the M&G’s 200 Young South Africans event is wanting in a number of aspects
OPINION | Climate change: We are wedded to our own suicide
Although the answers are not simple, the warnings have been coming for more than three decades and yet leaders are still not doing what must be done
M&G, electric cars are not a panacea
Producing EVs comes with all the absurdities of producing petrol vehicles
Apartheid lives: Why we still use that era’s ‘racial’ categories
While race is still central, it is the battle among the rich for the wealth of South Africa that has exacerbated inequality
Covid-19 has a silver lining
The outbreak and the response to it is showing us that many things are possible, including the provision of water to waterless municipalities
Analysis of inequality in South Africa remains shallow
The emergence of an upwardly mobile black elite is a success story, but it remains under wraps