25 July 2022
RW Johnson says Mozambique and the private sector is stepping in as SA's ports fail
07 July 2022
RW Johnson's 1999 warning on the ANC's new cadre deployment strategy
05 July 2022
And four other top stories on the business news website, 5 July 2022
29 June 2022
RW Johnson says our dominant party has not produced a single decent chief executive in almost thirty years
26 June 2022
RW Johnson says that if it is ever implemented the NHI will destroy South Africa
29 May 2022
RW Johnson says this is probably the last chapter in the USA's ability to play a comprehensive world role
25 May 2022
RW Johnson says politicians who don't control their borders will be punished at the polls
16 May 2022
RW Johnson on the wider implications of the collapse of our cities and towns
21 April 2022
RW Johnson writes on the nerve-wracking situation the Europe now finds itself in
04 April 2022
And four other top stories on the business news website, 4 April 2022
03 April 2022
RW Johnson says the idea that SA could be invited to mediate reflects one of Pretoria's abiding fantasies
29 March 2022
Helen Zille says the DA is having to make hard choices, in an uncertain context, while trying to avoid the worst for SA
24 March 2022
RW Johnson says the DA would be unlikely to survive a coalition with ANC 'reformists'
21 March 2022
RW Johnson on the dearth of credible African candidates for a permanent seat on the security council
21 March 2022
Helen Zille explains the best and worst case scenarios she set out at the recent BizNews conference
14 March 2022
RW Johnson questions whether a sufficient part of the ANC would ever break towards the DA
03 March 2022
RW Johnson says the ANC could have turned the area into a successful mass tourist destination, instead it destroyed it
28 February 2022
RW Johnson writes on why it would be a mistake to take such demands too seriously or to concede to them
14 February 2022
RW Johnson asks who will be covering the losses of the relaunched national airline
10 February 2022
Jeremy Gordin asks what unifying call to arms the President can make at a time like this?
06 February 2022
RW Johnson writes on the ANC's relentless programme of decay
30 January 2022
RW Johnson writes on the ConCourt's record of political partiality
24 January 2022
RW Johnson writes on how cadre deployment cancels out constitutional protections
15 January 2022
Jan Bosman responds to Gwen Ngwenya, says this is evident from the minutes of the organisation
16 December 2021
RW Johnson writes on Cyril Ramaphosa's predicament, ahead of the crunch 2024 election
16 December 2021
RW Johnson on what the EFF leader is up to, and the ANC and Zanu-fication
09 December 2021
RW Johnson writes on what is behind the incredible stories playing out in our press
02 December 2021
RW Johnson says the ANC now has no one to blame but itself, and everyone knows it
28 November 2021
RW Johnson writes on the real failures of the former president, and how these should be viewed
07 November 2021
RW Johnson says LGE 2021 has effectively rendered much of SA ungovernable again
25 October 2021
RW Johnson contrasts the record of our previous and current rulers
17 October 2021
RW Johnson writes on the possible trajectories of the four states, had union never happened
14 October 2021
RW Johnson wonders what would have happened if there had been no Union in 1910
13 October 2021
Graham McIntosh takes issue with RW Johnson's analysis in his July Days article
11 October 2021
RW Johnson writes on how the aftershocks of the Zuma insurrection are being felt in the municipal elections
27 September 2021
RW Johnson says the taboo against exerting effective control over our borders needs to end
02 September 2021
RW Johnson measures pre-1994 expectations of ANC rule against the current reality
24 August 2021
Grouping refutes writer's characterisation of leading individuals and companies, its role in the SAA deal
23 August 2021
RW Johnson says understanding the widening wealth gap since 1994 requires understanding the ANC's project
19 August 2021
RW Johnson writes on govt's expressed desire to bring R100bn of private money into Transnet
12 August 2021
RW Johnson writes on the international implications of our over-reliance on coal for power generation
29 July 2021
Jeremy Gordin asks whether it is time to pack his bags, just after he's watched the rugby
29 July 2021
RW Johnson writes on the dangers of completely giving up on state protection, and other matters
27 July 2021
RW Johnson says the only way out of our predicament is rapid economic growth
08 July 2021
RW Johnson says the ANC promised to learn from the mistakes made by others, but didn't
07 July 2021
RW Johnson writes on the strange mythologising of Africa's post-colonial leaders
27 June 2021
RW Johnson wonders what such leaders whisper in private when they survey the wreckage of their rule
31 May 2021
Koos Malan says multi-party democracy has failed wholesale to constrain ANC plunder
27 May 2021
RW Johnson writes on our ruling party's support for BDS in the light of the recent conflict
17 May 2021
Report states that the ANC's destructive racial policies are being buttressed by intellectual trends in America
17 May 2021
RW Johnson writes on why the Frelimo govt is so resistant to foreign military assistance in Cabo Delgado
04 May 2021
RW Johnson says it seems managerial and maintenance failures were a key cause of the disaster
29 April 2021
RW Johnson says the insatiable demands of local ANC political machines have sucked our towns and cities dry
26 April 2021
RW Johnson asks why the campus was not secured against the ever-present threat of fire
13 April 2021
David Bullard writes on some great news the financial press is hiding from you [FOR MEMBERS]
08 April 2021
Donwald Pressly assesses the candidacies of Dan Plato, Geordin Hill-Lewis & Bonginkosi Madikizela
08 April 2021
Jeremy Gordin's reflections on wandering the leaf-strewn Parkview streets
07 April 2021
RW Johnson writes on the dithering SADC and Frelimo response to the jihadist insurgency in Cabo Delgado
29 March 2021
RW Johnson says the ANC govt is incapable of learning from its mistakes, which are legion
25 March 2021
Pierre du Toit writes on the Afrikaner-Africa Initiative meeting in the light of RW Johnson's analysis
19 March 2021
Koos Malan explains how and why this engagement was different to the CODESA negotiations
07 March 2021
Mike Berger writes on the DA's difficulty in challenging the ANC, despite far outperforming it in govt
07 March 2021
RW Johnson writes on the ANC's inability to emulate the CCP, despite its admiration for it
01 March 2021
RW Johnson writes on civil society's response, and the rise of Solidarity and AfriForum
22 February 2021
RW Johnson writes on the many forms of ANC plunder in South Africa
17 February 2021
RW Johnson says a failing ANC state should be examined in the wider continental and historical context
31 January 2021
RW Johnson reviews the NPC document examining progress made to the NDP's Vision 2030
24 January 2021
RW Johnson examines the political record of the new US Vice President
03 January 2021
RW Johnson says the President is storing up trouble for himself by pandering to this mov
28 December 2020
RW Johnson asks what the response will be to national disgust at ANC decline
20 December 2020
RW Johnson writes on the jihadist threat in Cabo Delgado, and the implications for southern Africa
09 December 2020
RW Johnson says it is incontrovertible that Zille's head hunting went awry
07 December 2020
Geordin Hill-Lewis says historical perspective was lacking in the columnist's critique
30 November 2020
RW Johnson writes on the DA's difficulties in the context of the coming crisis
25 November 2020
RW Johnson says there is only one way out left for the ANC
11 November 2020
RW Johnson writes on the disenchantment of the struggle generation
04 November 2020
RW Johnson writes on how and why the accused avoided the death penalty
25 October 2020
RW Johnson writes on the Liverpool culture that produced John Lennon and the LFC
20 October 2020
RW Johnson's assesses the PEAC's "Briefing Notes on Key Policy Questions for South Africa’s Economic Recovery"
12 October 2020
RW Johnson writes on Blade Nzimande's challenge to his own govt's policy
30 September 2020
RW Johnson says that faced by an existential crisis the ANC has retreated into the realm of fantasy
28 September 2020
RW Johnson says at a time of national crisis too many intellectuals are peddling racial diversions
02 September 2020
RW Johnson says the party has no united vision or voice, but it carries on
27 August 2020
Jeremy Gordin's sets out what President Cyril Ramaphosa needs to do
26 August 2020
RW Johnson writes on the unrealistic expectations we had of the ANC, and Ramaphosa
19 August 2020
Mike Berger analyses our situation through a causes of state instability model
09 August 2020
RW Johnson says now that govt has run out of funds SARB and the commercial banks are under pressure
29 July 2020
RW Johnson imagines what politicians past and present think about our current situation
23 July 2020
RW Johnson writes on his decision to move back to South Africa from Oxford in 1994
19 July 2020
RW Johnson concludes his two part series on the dying of the old regime
16 July 2020
Jeremy Gordin says the lockdown cost 3m people their jobs, and for what?
15 July 2020
RW Johnson reflects on whether we will take the Zimbabwe route, rather than the reformist one
30 June 2020
RW Johnson analyses the Finance Minister's supplementary budget statement
24 June 2020
RW Johnson writes on the man whose killing triggered a national revolt in the US
11 June 2020
Jeremy Gordin ruminates on the FNF's strange cancellation of Politicsweb
10 June 2020
And, Paul Hoffman asks, are they reasonable limitations on human rights?
03 June 2020
RW Johnson says none of the party's factions seem to have much grasp on SA's predicament
02 June 2020
Dave Steward says the dilemma facing SA is far more critical than for most other countries
27 May 2020
The third and final article in RW Johnson's series on the coming showdown
25 May 2020
RW Johnson writes on SA's ballooning state debt, and the options for dealing with it
