25 AUGUST 2016 – 07:52 THE results of the local government elections have spotlighted and exacerbated the growing clash between patronage and middle-class interests. “Tenderpreneurialism” will attract intensified scrutiny. Incentives to transfer wealth to the poor and the connected will compound. Corruption and patronage are not synonymous, as some forms of patronage, such as income…Continue reading SA in perilous stalemate period and cannot afford the patronage machine

30th April 2016 SA desperately needs an epiphany. Similarly patronage-captured, resource-endowed, BRICS partner, Brazil, is also haemorrhaging politically and economically. Brazilian voters and leaders accept the need for bold shifts. Even the Saudi royal family has seen the light. Extraction focused economies have no choice but to fundamentally re-envisage their prospects and policies. Yet SA’s policy…Continue reading SA needs fundamental shift, current solutions “worse than useless”

29 MARCH 2016 – 07:39 The global economy has shown that pouring energy and resources into assets such as mines is no longer beneficial. Instead, policy shifts that allow SA to participate in the global economy by providing value-added goods and services would boost long-term prospects. Plugging into the global economy is a better option…Continue reading Outdated redress policies are failing SA

17 FEBRUARY 2016 – 07:49 SA’s interlaced political and economic difficulties are multiplied by profound shifts in the global economy. That SA’s elites are not articulating comprehensive solutions reflects decades of its universities producing specialists, while the nation’s challenges have become extraordinarily diverse. Leaders of top global universities have long maintained that business people well-educated…Continue reading Malaise extends far beyond Zuma Malaise extends far beyond Zuma