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Who wins from expensive, gassy energy plans?
Governments often make industrial or energy policy not only for their economies but also for themselves and their friends. This was abundantly clear in electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa’s Sunday announcement that the 2025 iteration of our energy plan, the Integrated Resource Plan, would include a major shift to nuclear and gas-fired power.
Payback time as music stops and ANC runs out of chairs
SA is exporting its human capital en masse while scratching around in the fog of US trade talks
Judgment is coming with ANC on edge of a precipice
The party could see its vote fall below 30% nationwide in next year’s election, well beyond recovery
ANC is looking backwards while trying to walk forwards
Nothing can be done with this country without absolutely enormous fixed investment — and we’re not even close
Mountains of dead steel could be grist to the mill
An imaginary crisis when there is plenty of dead steel lying around in the country
Another day, another graft exposé
Shakedown of IDT CEO and spokesperson shows how easy corruption is here
Here we are, at the end of a limb
Working around Trump’s tariffs will take far longer than it ought to, thanks to the amateurs in the Union Buildings
Lies and half-truths cloud goings-on in the presidency
SA kept in the dark on Ramaphosa’s special envoy to the US, Mcebisi Jonas
SA stranded without a voice in Washington after taking the US for granted
Special envoy Mcebisi Jonas, as far as we know, has not once set foot in the US
Steenhuisen massages figures after painful surrender
What really happened in last year’s election was the vote for corruption, unemployment and low growth was split
