Power to the People?
South Africa’s great constitutional experiment is part modern republic, part post-liberation compromise. We’ve inherited a state both noble in its intentions and bloated in its execution. The Executive sprawls like a badly planned city, with ministries stacked like shipping containers on a listing vessel of political convenience. Our police force is centralised to the point […]
Three quick cuts to jump-start the SA economy
SA’s future lies in a mixed economy with a liberated infrastructure grid, not a Soviet-style ministry dictating who may build what and where There are few sounds more satisfying than the crack of sekelbos splitting clean under a sharp axe: the reward of precision, strength and purpose. SA’s economy needs just such a moment of precision, strength […]