Renewable energy’s dark side
As countries expand investment in decentralised renewable energy, its worth keeping an eye on who’s profiting.
Use the workplace to stop socially embedded violence
The judicial system alone and appealing to miscreants has not stopped attacks on women
Just what is ‘economics for Africa’?
A relevant economics curriculum should include different schools of thought and students must learn to engage with these in a critical way
The university is not a factory
University managers try to churn out as many products as possible at as low a quality as they can get away with
Budget 2018: First steps towards a recovery, but at what cost?
Whether measures announced by Gigaba will stave off a downgrade by the remaining credit rating agency remains to be seen.
Free higher education in South Africa: Cutting through the lies and statistics
Zuma’s free higher education proposal is the worst kind of populism. It’s been sold as a radically progressive policy with no negative consequences.
JZ’s fees plan ‘reckless, regressive’
The president’s proposed policy for 2018 lacks the critical foresight to truly lay the groundwork to improve access to education
What the hijacking of treasury means for the economy
The Conversation Africa’s Sibonelo Radebe asked Seán Muller to weigh up the implications.
What the hijacking of South Africa’s Treasury means for the economy
The imposition of the fee-free higher education proposal on National Treasury without due consideration represents an escalation of state capture
SA needs to sober up to save itself from sickly SEOs
There is no good case for bailing out South African Airways, it’s simply a matter of avoiding a potentially catastrophic debt default.