11th March 2015 SA’s political dialogues have become inward focused as life chances and daily drudgeries reflect – and are exacerbated by – past missteps. Blunders, such as Eskom’s misadventures, put a tight lid on near and medium-term growth while Zuma era policies and practices undermine longer-term prospects. Yet adjusting to a changing global economy…Continue reading No inward looking to strong growth

23 JANUARY 2015 – 09:00 Putin’s Russia offers important lessons for SA and proves that a reinvention of current political-economic dispensations is necessary, writes Shawn Hagedorn RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin presides over a huge and frequently frozen nation, yet its similarities with, and lessons for, SA are profound. • Exiting isolation. About 25 years ago…Continue reading Profound economic lessons for SA in Russia

02 January 2019 Today, morality is suddenly much less framed by ongoing survival challenges. For most of humanity’s existence, might-is-right co-existed with survival challenges to shape community ideals around morality and social cohesion and hierarchies. Humans had always been like other creatures in favouring their kin. The rise of the modern nation state was largely…Continue reading Prospective article: Prosperity, the human condition …