PETER BRUCE: Dan Moyane, have I got news for you!
In the past few days there’s been a rapid flurry of reports suggesting the prevailing wisdom that Covid-19 is a respiratory disease may be wrong
PETER BRUCE: Logic now has nothing to do with handling Covid-19 in SA; it’s just politics
President Cyril Ramaphosa is up against it if he is going to continue seeking political consensus on decisions that should be made on science alone, writes ...
PETER BRUCE: SA’s lockdown has reached its sell-by date
Why didn’t we just go out and buy 50,000 beds? There are lots of places to put them
PETER BRUCE: Pandemics: lessons from the past for those who are Left
We isolate, caregivers risk their lives, the rich hoard and the poor suffer. But the rich die too. And we argue like there’s no tomorrow
PETER BRUCE: Can Cyril change the ANC’s tune amid Moody’s blues?
Ramaphosa has to move ahead or get out of the way. Reform has to come or we all crumble, rich and poor, big companies and small
PETER BRUCE: Covid-19: Will SA be locked and loaded?
Ramaphosa looks better by the day. He’s taken bold and early action and it just might work
PETER BRUCE: Bright spots in the Covid-19 gloom
Combating something that isn’t his own party will do Cyril Ramaphosa no end of good
PETER BRUCE: Note to the DA: Business is your business
The DA needs its leaders to have awkward conversations with big business. They shouldn’t be afraid
PETER BRUCE: Expropriation with consultation, but no compensation
What comes out on land needs to be rock solid or nothing Ramaphosa does to the economy will matter anymore
PETER BRUCE: Bring me the head of Gwede Mantashe
He is doing the country and his constituency tremendous harm through obstinate policy positions in mining and in energy
PETER BRUCE: Gwede’s power permission plan is coal comfort for investors
Everything Mantashe utters or does is, in one way or another, about protecting coal or drawing out the decline in its use for as long as possible
PETER BRUCE: Ramaphosa faces his expropriation without compensation Rubicon
In all of the world’s most successful economies, property rights are sacrosanct. The moment a minister or an official or a relative deprives a productive ...
PETER BRUCE: Eskom, throw this idea at the wall and see if it sticks
We have the technology to turn coal slurry into a usable briquette form that will allow us to supply all of Eskom’s coal requirements for about 17 years
PETER BRUCE: Cyril, Gweezy and the politics of power
Why it wasn’t a bad idea to support Cyril, even though the ANC could be described as apartheid’s parting gift to SA
PETER BRUCE: Stage 6 and counting: the Gwede Mantashe factor
Somehow, money and politics are staying Mantashe’s hand. Unless he moves, Mantashe will threaten Ramaphosa more directly than any of his more visible opponents
PETER BRUCE: The writing’s on the wall for Iqbal Survé
Digital news is here to stay but there needs to be more real journalistic competition back in the print market as well
PETER BRUCE: Eskom: the throne behind the power
If the wrong person is appointed as Eskom CEO, Cyril Ramaphosa can kiss stabilising the economy goodbye
PETER BRUCE: Bok power wins; Eskom’s power struggles
If it were up to me I’d get Calitz into Eskom and ask Maseko to fix SAA
PETER BRUCE: The Springboks are no pushover
Erasmus has taken a debilitated and broken team and turned them around
