William Saunderson-Meyer says 50 years ago the country was dirt poor and enamoured with radical socialism

William Saunderson-Meyer says self-regulation has not done much to keep the audit profession on the straight and narrow

William Saunderson-Meyer on the WCape Premier's tax revolt threat, and the ANC and DA responses to it

William Saunderson-Meyer writes on the tawdry mechanics of corruption being exposed at the Zondo Commission

William Saunderson-Meyer on 25 years of unrealised ANC manifesto commitments

William Saunderson-Meyer writes on the touchy question of illegal immigrants in SA

William Saunderson-Meyer on how politics is lining up as we reach 25 years of ANC rule

William Saunderson-Meyer on the huge task facing the newly appointed NDPP

William Saunderson-Meyer says the US President's choice of ambassador is a useful gauge

William Saunderson-Meyer writes on Barbara Hogan's grim experiences of cadre deployment

William Saunderson-Meyer says despite their advantages Dem performance in the US mid-terms was mediocre

William Saunderson-Meyer says President Ramaphosa can only win on jobs by losing Cosatu

William Saunderson-Meyer says it seems the Ecuadorians have had their fill of Julian Assange

William Saunderson-Meyer says SA is behaving like a teenage pyromaniac

William Saunderson-Meyer on the dangerous combination of low GDP growth and (relatively) high population growth

William Saunderson-Meyer on yet another govt economic stimulus and recovery plan

William Saunderson-Meyer writes on a killing that encapsulates SA's decay

William Saunderson-Meyer asks whether govt is tackling the problem with a renewed seriousness

William Saunderson-Meyer on how the 'KGB of consulting' withered before the Nugent inquiry

William Saunderson-Meyer writes on the checkered past of the consultant class

William Saunderson-Meyer writes on how 1988 mirrors the year we are now in

William Saunderson-Meyer says it seems even the most rotten and economically inept NLM can keep winning at the polls

William Saunderson-Meyer says there is no reason, as yet, to believe that Zanu-PF did not win fairly

William Saunderson-Meyer writes on the first post-Mugabe elections in that country

William Saunderson-Meyer says former US President's words could be read as applying to us, not just Trump

William Saunderson-Meyer says he does not usually condone police brutality, but ...

William Saunderson-Meyer says govt makes it ridiculously difficult for foreign trained doctors to practice in SA

William Saunderson-Meyer says the two leaders are twinned in misfortune

William Saunderson-Meyer says almost everywhere refugees are having doors slammed in their faces

William Saunderson-Meyer explains why the report should be applauded

William Saunderson-Meyer says the minister is in denial about the state of our public healthcare system

William Saunderson-Meyer writes on the move to make "history" a compulsory subject in schools

William Saunderson-Meyer says many of our towns and cities are being run by rogues

William Saunderson-Meyer says once sporadic community violence is becoming more frequent and brazen

William Saunderson-Meyer says the economy remains in a bad way, and the President's position is precarious

William Saunderson-Meyer says Trump is fed-up with the funneling of aid to countries that vote against the US at the UN

William Saunderson-Meyer says the truth is things are bad and are likely to get worse before they get better

William Saunderson-Meyer writes on the complications likely to arise from the criminalisation of racial abuse

William Saunderson-Meyer says SA needs a leader able to stand up against the PSU's wage demands

William Saunderson-Meyer on the contrasting judicial experiences of Madikizela-Mandela and Momberg

William Saunderson-Meyer says the Gauteng govt leaders failed to do penance on Human Rights Day

William Saunderson-Meyer on how our powerful crooks keep getting away with it

William Saunderson-Meyer says the EFF leader's dangerous race rhetoric needs to be opposed and checked

William Saunderson-Meyer says executive interference in the NPA goes back a long way

William Saunderson-Meyer on the unintended consequences of the EFF and DA's all too successful anti-Zuma campaign

William Saunderson-Meyer says our now ex-president was cunning, racist and shamelessly corrupt

William Saunderson-Meyer writes on the SA President's imminent departure

William Saunderson-Meyer says there is a streak of schadenfreude in the non-Capetonian response to crisis

William Saunderson-Meyer says Fikile Mbalula has performed a truly remarkable flip-flop since NDZ’s defeat

William Saunderson-Meyer asks whether the ANC President will destroy the constitution he helped create

William Saunderson-Meyer on the speculation that the US President is mentally unfit for office

William Saunderson-Meyer says conference result hinged upon fewer than 100 votes

William Saunderson-Meyer writes on James Suzman’s "Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen"

William Saunderson-Meyer writes on US President's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital

William Saunderson-Meyer says we won't be seeing the paralympian again soon, after SCA had its say

William Saunderson-Meyer says our neighbour has got rid of a despised leader, can we now do the same?

William Saunderson-Meyer says we are just seeing the transfer of power from one Zanu-PF faction to another

William Saunderson-Meyer says the post-1994 social compact has been trashed by the Zupta mobsters

William Saunderson-Meyer says the SAFA president is doing exactly the right thing over rape claims

William Saunderson-Meyer writes on the problem few in politically correct society want to discuss

William Saunderson-Meyer says the President is simply a shameless, unscrupulous opportunist

William Saunderson-Meyer says there is certain sense of schadenfreude at seeing these giants stumble

William Saunderson-Meyer says the smug motto of big business has always been "the business of business is business"

William Saunderson-Meyer writes on TEI's decision to keep their accreditation of the hotline

William Saunderson-Meyer on SANEF's nonsensical response to the ZCC's boycott call against Tiso Blackstar

William Saunderson-Meyer on the continuing fall-out for BP, KPMG and McKinsey from this toxic association

William Saunderson-Meyer says on the UK PR firm's unlamented fall over the Zupta account

William Saunderson-Meyer says the NHI will be disastrous for all but the uber-elite

William Saunderson-Meyer on the controversy around the granting of diplomatic immunity to Zimbabwe's first lady

William Saunderson-Meyer on what the Mugabes, Trump, Zuma and Duterte have in common

William Saunderson-Meyer writes on the art of handwriting, then and now

William Saunderson-Meyer asks why our banks ignored the flashing red lights for so long

William Saunderson-Meyer says this group waited too long, and failed to act in concert

William Saunderson-Meyer says that 25.1 people per 100 000 die on our roads every year

William Saunderson-Meyer says the attacks on Suna Venter set a disturbing example

William Saunderson-Meyer writes on the reopening of inquest into Ahmed Timol's death, and Hillsborough

William Saunderson-Meyer says the ANC should stop going after the WMC bogeyman and have a close look at itself

William Saunderson-Meyer on the suspended SAPS chief, whose term of office finally came to an end this week

William Saunderson-Meyer says Mmusi Maimane has directed his party onto a dangerous course

William Saunderson-Meyer says it was a mistake to judge President's prospects by cack-handed way he governed post-2009

William Saunderson-Meyer says that unlike some among us Ryan Davy took responsibility for what he did

William Saunderson-Meyer says to a great degree we believe what we want to believe

William Saunderson-Meyer says that, as Mbeki warned, we are becoming "just another African kleptocracy"

William Saunderson-Meyer says we’ve always been mean and self, and racialism doesn’t help

William Saunderson-Meyer says our new police minister certainly knows how to shoot from the hip

William Saunderson-Meyer says one day we will all be Bantustan citizens

William Saunderson-Meyer says the President's cunning is underestimated at one's peril

William Saunderson-Meyer says mutiny is a dangerous game to play

William Saunderson-Meyer says we're in the grip of a a deadening intellectual censorship

William Saunderson-Meyer says our spirits are as low as they've ever been post-1994

William Saunderson-Meyer says President Zuma’s acolytes are going to have to up their game

William Saunderson-Meyer says the lack of public reaction to the loss of the event is sadly misguided

William Saunderson-Meyer says the finance minister holds office at the pleasure of a president who loathes him

William Saunderson-Meyer says there is one big difference between the two men

William Saunderson-Meyer says our country is rudderless; its govt is corrupt and incompetent

William Saunderson-Meyer says Marikana pales before the death of 94 mentally ill patients

William Saunderson-Meyer says the US President's inaugural address was just a nationalist rant

William Saunderson-Meyer says the company's response to the Kuga fire crisis has been pathetic

William Saunderson-Meyer says it is too early to say that Obama's presidency was a failure

William Saunderson-Meyer identifies the most baffling conundrum of 2016