Great interview with a great South African....,

By most metrics, the U.S. economy was the strongest in the world when Mr. Trump took office in January, leading some analysts to describe the president’s actions as a historic self-inflicted wound akin to a soccer player’s scoring a goal against his own team.

More like scoring three own-goals in the same match.

Hope there are none of Afriforum's refugee Afrikaaners farming down there. Really being expropriated rather just moaning about the possibility of it would be a blow.

McIlroy really is making a meal of this.... No one rooting for him needs this level of stress...

Welcome news if it holds true at the polls. What would be even better would be if the DA capitalized by leaving it's little laager and becoming even more attractive to black voters. dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-0… Sent with my Daily Maverick App (app.dailymaverick.co.za)

The end justifies the means.

South Africa has been down this road before with Zuma. We knew then we were getting a hopelessly dodgy leader. What we hoped was he could deliver. He didn't. Pieter du Toit | Mashatile's public record lacks substance, what he stands for remains unclear news24.com/news24/opinion…

Am now heartily sick of the incessant rain Durban has had this summer. Can we please have our old sunny climate back?

Oh, and never mind the Iron Curtain, which was pretty much Russia invading and occupying the whole of Eastern Europe for 45 years.

Excellent read. Of all the conspiracy theories, this has to be the grandaddy of them all. WEEKEND ESSAY | 'Great Replacement': How race science fuels modern hate... from Darwin to Musk news24.com/news24/weekend…

And on cue, my suitcase opened up at King Shaka or OR Tambo. Cable ties cut off. Nothing of value to take. Thanks for nothing #acsa - it's a real intrusion Wendy Knowler Airport baggage theft crisis: Investigator hospitalised after attack, passengers fume news24.com/fin24/consumer…

Too many white South Africans have been too intellectually lazy to overturn their inner apartheid narratives. Afrikaners especially have failed their own children 'X-Boer' Unmasked | The ex-farmer spreading racism, lies to millions - including Musk, Trump news24.com/news24/investi…

I've been a Liverpool fan for 50 years. Good times and bad times. One thing I can't abide is anyone in the Anfield crowd booing Trent Alexander-Arnold He's given 20 years of his life to Liverpool FC Won everything with us - and been key to us winning everything. He deserves applause every touch.

BEE is an anti-growth strategy. It kills investment and entrepreneurship, two absolute necessities for economic growth. WILLIAM GUMEDE | BEE is killing the economy and must be ditched timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/o…

Killing BEE in its current form will be a herculean effort akin to Thatcher taking on the unions. Too many vested interests (who add no real growth value). But it has to be done. WILLIAM GUMEDE | BEE is killing the economy and must be ditched timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/o…

Until black South Africans recognize that BEE as it stands fabulously enriches a few, with no entrepreneurial or economic growth divided for all, we won't be able to find something better. As it is, BEE is simply another tax on the majority of South Africans, who are black.

Gwede Mantashe's shameful legacy grows... currencynews.co.za/mantashe-flash…

This simple truth from Peter Bruce is absolutely fundamental to the future success of our beloved country. The challenge is the ignorance and outdated ideology that sits at the core of the ANC. PETER BRUCE | Redress requires the economy to grow timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/o…