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Ismail Lagardien was educated at the London School of Economics and holds a PhD in international political economy. Earlier, he was a journalist, a photojournalist and an academic, and worked in the Office of the Chief Economist of the World Bank, and in the Secretariat of the National Planning Commission. He was also the executive dean of business and economics sciences at Nelson Mandela University.
This is my last column for The Herald. With this, I close a five-year relationship I have had with the Bay area, the first 18 months of which were exceedingly difficult, and left me ill for more than 12 months.
Some of greatest minds didn’t have qualifications to match
So, Mmusi Maimane was “an experiment” that “went wrong”. The DA then reverted to type, and replaced him with the predictable mediocrity of John Steenhuisen, and effectively shored up the complacency of white privilege and hegemony.
With a mighty container ship blocking passageway through the Suez Canal, the single-most important link between the dynamic and vibrant economies of Asia and Europe, we can expect more vessels passing SA’s coast in the coming days, weeks…
There is a long history of black cricketers threatening white superiority in SA.
People who hold onto their identity as settler colonists of SA (who, in my view, are as South African as everyone else), tend to have huge opinions about changing the name of Port Elizabeth to Gqeberha. There are many people who would…
One of the myriad failures of SA’s education system — the post-1994 period — is a poor knowledge of civics and society.
Their main concern is whether it would be “halal”. It’s a tough one. I don’t know whether the vaccinations are “halal,” and I don’t, actually, care.
Zuma’s spokesperson, Vukile Mathebula echoed Pambo’s claim: “The young man [Malema] wanted to have tea with the elder, and the elder said ‘yes,’ then they had tea. That’s all.”
More than three decades after not winning the military conflict against the apartheid regime, the ANC’s military wing, the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA), is rapidly becoming a rabble-rousing, but dangerous force…
I hate to sound morbid, or neurotic — OK I am a bit neurotic — but the past few months have been especially frightening.
If everything goes according to plan, the US will have a new president and vice-president on Wednesday.
On January 6, the US came as close to a full-on coup that several countries around the world had experienced over decades.
I felt a hint of sadness when Britain left the EU at the end of December.
It’s the time of the year when we indulge in the obligatory end-of-year reflection. In this year of the Covid-19 pandemic we have had very little time to think of anything else — and it has been a big year for the country. SA has been…
