The edited version was published in the Sunday Times, 27 April 2025  A simple search about the purpose of tax yields “to fund social and economic programmes, and to provide public goods and services, such as schools, universities, hospitals, clinics and roads, as well as defence and security. ” Taxes [...]

The world is undergoing a process of creating a convergence of private sector efficiency, public sector leadership legitimacy, political, and democratic criteria in how societies, countries, and, more acutely, governments are led. This has been an ongoing experiment for several years, and an emerging consensus is that the context of [...]

The idea that the ANC is a broad church is born from its support at its founding by Christian Church leaders. Its founding President, elected in absentia, was a practising clergyman, Reverend John Langalibalele Dube.  Its character as a church raises the question: What is its great commission for its [...]

Published in the BusinessDay of 23 April 2025  The ensemble that the tariff wars have lurched global trade into chaos might have rewritten how smart democracies should deal with geopolitics. The new foreign policy theorems of transactional international relations are starting to procure private C-suites as the global trade-facing brigades [...]