Articles
8 July 2026
South Africa does not need a politics of permanent grievance; it needs a politics of competence.
The consequences of this Bill are entirely predictable.
There is a statistic worth sitting with; the population is growing faster than the economy.
When it comes to sustainability and stability, history is also on the side of democracy.
The issue is not that South Africans lack enterprise; the problem is that our policy environment actively suppresses it.
The triple bottom line fails because there is no coherent mechanism for balancing three allegedly equal bottom lines.
This means that taxpayers must work the first 142 days of the year for the state before earning a single rand for themselves and their families.
Tax Freedom Day has arrived later, on average, by one day per year.