Country:
South Africa


NEWS
A Weekend Together, Lives Apart — ‘Sailor’ Malan and ‘Shenge’ Buthelezi
Greg Mills
21 Sep 2023

NEWS
The Truth? It’s Been Downhill for South Africa Since we Joined BRICS
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
7 Sep 2023

NEWS
Will South Africa Learn the Right or the Wrong Lessons from other African Elections?
Rutendo Nyaku
5 Sep 2023

NEWS
South Africa’s Strange Obsession with China is Proof That it’s a Cheap Date
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
29 Aug 2023

VIDEOS
Moneyweb: Ray Hartley on the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg
Ray Hartley
26 Aug 2023

NEWS
All in All, It's Just Another BRICS in the Mall
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
25 Aug 2023

NEWS
South Africa’s Moment of Political Hope has Finally Arrived
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
22 Aug 2023

NEWS
"We Don't Need no Thought Control” – The Problem with the BRICS Summit
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
21 Aug 2023

NEWS
Zuma, Ramaphosa, Mashatile: SA Business Must Finally Accept the Problem is the ANC Itself
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
31 Jul 2023

NEWS
Courtus Interruptus? Don’t be Fooled, Putin’s Absence From SA May Only be Temporary
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
25 Jul 2023

NEWS
From Friendship to Fiendship? SA’s Foreign Policy Since Mandela
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
24 Jul 2023

NEWS
Dead Ideology Fights Back – But Ad Hominem Attacks Won’t Make SA’s Foreign Policy Rational, or Right
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
10 Jul 2023

NEWS
The Gdańsk Declaration: Solidarity for Democracy
Alfonso de Prat Gay, Greg Mills, Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno, Olusegun Obasanjo
26 Jun 2023

VIDEOS
Dr Greg Mills weighs in on Russia-Ukraine trip
Greg Mills
20 Jun 2023

NEWS
Punching Below our Diplomatic Weight – Why SA Foreign Policy Fails on Ukraine
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
19 Jun 2023

NEWS
Ukrainians Believe South Africa is Not Neutral and is ‘Squandering its Moral Capital’
Greg Mills
2 Jun 2023

VIDEOS
Ray Hartley on SA's Russia Relations | Carte Blanche | M-Net
Ray Hartley
30 May 2023

NEWS
A New Blight Befouls South Africa — Truth Shedding
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
19 May 2023

NEWS
China, India and Brazil in favour of UN Resolution Describing Russia as Aggressor – SA Abstains – What Now?
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
3 May 2023

NEWS
Why Mo Shaik’s Rattle and Roll Just Doesn’t Rock
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
2 May 2023

NEWS
A Confederacy of Dunces: Ramaphosa is Drowning in a Sea of Morbid Symptoms
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
28 Apr 2023

NEWS
In Apparent Effort not to Upset Putin’s Russia, ANC Government Bans Arms Sales to Poland
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
3 Apr 2023

NEWS
Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, You Have the Power to Take us Back Into the Light — Here’s how to do it
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
15 Mar 2023

NEWS
The Shocking True Cost of Rolling Blackouts — Trillions, not Billions
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
3 Mar 2023

NEWS
The Dogs of War are Back – but is Ramaphosa Finally Seeing the Light on Wagner?
Greg Mills
23 Feb 2023

NEWS
Murder we Vote? Arresting South Africa’s Slide into a Failed State Anarchy
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
20 Feb 2023

VIDEOS
The Burning Platform: Better Choices with Greg Mills
Greg Mills
16 Feb 2023

NEWS
What Could — and Should — the Ukraine War Cost South Africa?
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
13 Feb 2023

NEWS
Why can’t SA Take Leaf out of Zambia’s Reform Book?
10 Feb 2023

NEWS
Friendship or Fiendship? South Africa’s Weird Love for Russia Poses Serious Questions
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
27 Jan 2023

NEWS
Reflections on a Visit to Ukraine: Humanity is Indivisible, Africans Must Choose the Right Side of History
26 Jan 2023

VIDEOS
Humanity is Indivisible
24 Jan 2023

NEWS
South Africa’s Fawning at the Feet of the Russians will Carry High Costs
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
24 Jan 2023

NEWS
The Smoke that Blunders — Russia, China and SA Navy Exercise is Immoral, Stupid and Impractical
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
17 Jan 2023

NEWS
The ANC is Not Fit for Purpose in an Open Democratic Society — and Most South Africans Now Agree
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
11 Jan 2023

VIDEOS
ANC conference, a defining moment for South Africa's future
Ray Hartley
16 Dec 2022

NEWS
De Ruyter Resignation — Tripping the Light Fantastic
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
15 Dec 2022

VIDEOS
Video Launch - South Africa’s Future: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley, Roelf Meyer
14 Dec 2022

NEWS
SA’s Future: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — and a Fistful of Cents
Greg Mills, Roelf Meyer
14 Dec 2022

VIDEOS
Discussion | What does the future hold for the ANC?
Greg Mills
13 Dec 2022

NEWS
South Africa’s Future: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Greg Mills, Roelf Meyer
13 Dec 2022

PUBLICATIONS
South Africa’s Future: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Presentation
13 Dec 2022

NEWS
The Night Simon’s Town Became Vladimir Putin’s Town
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
9 Dec 2022

NEWS
Dr Jackal, Mr Hyena and the Two Faces of ANC Politics
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
29 Nov 2022

NEWS
Hope Springs — ‘With the Help of Technology, SA’s Energy Problems Could be Solved in a Year’
28 Nov 2022

VIDEOS
South Africans Favour 'National Coalition Government'
Greg Mills
24 Nov 2022

NEWS
South Africans Overwhelmingly Favour a National Coalition to Govern the Country – Electoral Survey
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
23 Nov 2022

SURVEYS
SA Heading for Coalition as ANC to Get Under 50%
23 Nov 2022

NEWS
Defence Minister Thandi Modise’s Dangerous Dance with Putin
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
31 Oct 2022

EVENTS
How Populism is Rewiring the World - In the Name of the People Virtual Book Launch
with Ray Hartley, Tendai Biti

VIDEOS
Judge for Yourself with Dennis Davis | 13 October 2022
14 Oct 2022

NEWS
Ramaphosa's Weak Government Dangerously out of Touch with Africa
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
14 Oct 2022

NEWS
The Grim Prospect of the EFF Governing SA Looms
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
4 Oct 2022

NEWS
The World has Changed, but South Africa's Foreign Policy has Failed to Change With it
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
8 Sep 2022

BOOKS
Better Choices: Ensuring South Africa's Future
Greg Mills, Mcebisi Jonas, Ray Hartley

VIDEOS
Number of Undocumented Migrants Living in SA Unknown
Emmanuel Owusu-Sekyere
16 Aug 2022

NEWS
Flying Circus — Thandi Modise's Shocking Trip to Russian Security Conference
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
15 Aug 2022

NEWS
South Africa's favouritism towards autocratic nations poisons its recipe for democracy
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
8 Aug 2022

NEWS
In the Darkness of Rolling Blackouts, Ramaphosa's Fate is Being Decided
Ray Hartley
22 Jul 2022

NEWS
South Africa and the Russian Federation — Pause Before Engaging
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
14 Jul 2022

NEWS
Simplifying Peacemaking in a Complex World
Hailemariam Desalegn, Kgalema Motlanthe, Olusegun Obasanjo
12 Jul 2022

NEWS
By Their Friends Shall ye Know Them — South Africa and Russia
Greg Mills
23 Jun 2022

NEWS
Dear Ndileka Mandela, There is Zero Moral Ambiguity in Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Bobi Wine, Greg Mills, Tendai Biti
10 Jun 2022

NEWS
SA can no Longer be Held to Ransom by ANC Factional Politics, Says New Book by Country's Top Thinkers
Mcebisi Jonas
9 Jun 2022

EVENTS
Better Choices: Ensuring South Africa's Future
with Mcebisi Jonas

NEWS
Mayor Mpho Phalatse: It's Time to Make Better Choices
Mpho Phalatse
28 May 2022

VIDEOS
Better Choices Book Launch: Mayor Mpho Phalatse Speaks
27 May 2022

NEWS
Better Choices: Can South Africa Avoid the Perfect and Potentially Violent Gathering Storm?
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
26 May 2022

NEWS
The Case for a New and Better Social Compact for Africa in the Quest for Growth
Marie-Noelle Nwokolo
25 May 2022

VIDEOS
Better Choices
25 May 2022

PUBLICATIONS
No One Is Safe Until Everyone Is Safe: A Study of Migrant Experiences With COVID-19 in South Africa
Alexandra Willis, Emmanuel Owusu-Sekyere, Gugu Resha, Marie-Noelle Nwokolo, Richard Morrow
18 May 2022

NEWS
As the Zondo Commission Reports Show, it May be Time to Curb the President's Powers
Alexandra Willis
6 May 2022

NEWS
Undocumented Migrants — The Myths, Realities, and What we Know and Don't Know
Alexandra Willis, Emmanuel Owusu-Sekyere
24 Mar 2022

NEWS
On Russia and Ukraine, the Opposition, not the ANC, Speaks for SA
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
23 Mar 2022

NEWS
Et tu Cyril? Your Russian Petticoat Has Been Exposed
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
18 Mar 2022

NEWS
Cries of Pain and Anguish — Why the ANC is on the Wrong Side of History over Ukraine
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
7 Mar 2022

NEWS
Whither Cadre Deployment in South Africa?
Alexandra Willis
21 Feb 2022

NEWS
Destructive Knoflokskraal Fire Reveals Five Failures Caused by Weak and Cowardly Leadership
Greg Mills, Mike du Toit
7 Feb 2022

NEWS
South Africa Cannot Pivot to Prosperity Without Truly Brave Leaders
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
17 Jan 2022

NEWS
Who's 'That Man'? The Perspective of a 20-Something 'Whindian' on FW de Klerk
Alexandra Willis
16 Nov 2021

NEWS
Apartheid-Era's Last President, FW de Klerk, Was a Man at War With His History
Ray Hartley
12 Nov 2021

NEWS
Ramaphosa's Choice: Lead or Be Led
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
1 Nov 2021

NEWS
Government Should Change its Approach to Service Delivery
Marie-Noelle Nwokolo
14 Oct 2021

NEWS
Trading South Africa's Foreign Policy: Dispense With Parochial Approaches and Recognise International Opportunities
Peter Fabricius
3 Sep 2021

VIDEOS
Newzroom Afrika Interview with Ray Hartley
Ray Hartley
1 Sep 2021

PUBLICATIONS
A Fit for Purpose Foreign Policy: Integrating Investment, Growth & Diplomacy
Peter Fabricius
23 Aug 2021

NEWS
A Reluctant Hegemon: The SANDF and its 'Defined' Role in Sub-Saharan Africa
Prof. Martin R. Rupiya
17 Aug 2021

PUBLICATIONS
A Reluctant Hegemon: The SANDF and its 'defined' role in sub-Saharan Africa
Prof. Martin R. Rupiya
10 Aug 2021

NEWS
Three Things President Ramaphosa Can Do Now to Kickstart a New Trajectory Scenario
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
10 Aug 2021

PUBLICATIONS
A Special Economic Zone Masterplan for Gauteng
Ray Hartley, Richard Morrow
5 Aug 2021

NEWS
After the Looting: A Snap Survey Reveals What South Africans Think — And Fear
Greg Mills, Henry Sands, Ray Hartley
2 Aug 2021

NEWS
Averting South Africa's Political Crisis: Will the Basic Income Grant Cut It?
Gugu Resha
26 Jul 2021

NEWS
It's Time for the Law-Abiding Middle to Take Ownership of South Africa
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
16 Jul 2021

NEWS
Ramaphosa Holds Our Future in His Hands, but Can He Do the Right Thing?
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
14 Jul 2021

PUBLICATIONS
Can Eskom Perform the Power Pivot?
Ray Hartley
22 Jun 2021

NEWS
Prioritising Youth and Women: How the Digital Economy Can Protect South Africa's Most Precarious
Gugu Resha
19 May 2021

NEWS
Ramaphosa Needs to Move from Tinkering to Reforming
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
9 May 2021

NEWS
State Security Agency has Become a Source of Embarrassment - It's Time for our Spies to Come in from the Cold
Dr Nel Marais
5 May 2021

PUBLICATIONS
Building a Fit for Purpose South African Intelligence Service
Dr Nel Marais
30 Apr 2021

NEWS
What broke South African rail — and can it be fixed?
20 Apr 2021

PUBLICATIONS
Why There Are so Many Trucks on the Road and so Few Trains on the Tracks
13 Apr 2021

NEWS
South Africa's Vaccine Roll-Out Failings Expose the Hollowing Out of the State
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
9 Apr 2021

EVENTS
GAP: A Pandemic, Post State Capture Budget: Has Tito Delivered?
with Ray Hartley

EVENTS
A Pandemic, Post-State Capture Budget: Has Tito Delivered?
with Ray Hartley

EVENTS
South Africa and Democracy in Africa - A webinar in partnership with RUSI
with Ray Hartley

NEWS
Dealing with Zuma: It's a choice between a political and constitutional crisis
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
2 Feb 2021

EVENTS
GAP: Efficiency of Fiscal Spending, Political Economy of Reform
with Ray Hartley

EVENTS
Debt and Taxes: What Does South Africa's Future Hold? A Webinar Series
with Ray Hartley

EVENTS
GAP: Revenue management: What Is To Be Done?
with Ray Hartley

EVENTS
GAP: Our Fiscal Consolidation Path: Is it Feasible?
with Ray Hartley

PUBLICATIONS
South Africa's Fiscal Path - A Presentation by Professor Michael Sachs
15 Jan 2021

NEWS
Ramaphosa's recovery plan: A tipping point for energy and infrastructure — or another missed opportunity?
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
3 Nov 2020

PUBLICATIONS
Lockdown Economics: Key Challenges Facing the South African Economy
29 Oct 2020

EVENTS
Watch The Webinar: Lockdown Economics: Will the Economic Recovery Plan Work?
with Ray Hartley

NEWS
South Africa's Economy In 10 Slides
16 Oct 2020

PUBLICATIONS
South Africa's Economy In 10 Slides
16 Oct 2020

EVENTS
Watch The Webinar: Turning SA Around Province by Province
with Ray Hartley

NEWS
Did COVID-19 grants work? Survey reveals the answer
1 Oct 2020

EVENTS
Watch The Webinar: Can South African Tourism Be Saved?
with Ray Hartley

NEWS
How Covid-19 changed the way the world works
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
27 Aug 2020

NEWS
Why the ANC should back 'all-inclusive dialogue' on Zimbabwe's future
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
24 Aug 2020

NEWS
Watch the Webinar: Lindiwe Zulu and Tendai Biti on Fixing Zimbabwe
Greg Mills
21 Aug 2020

EVENTS
Watch the Webinar: Lindiwe Zulu and Tendai Biti on the ANC and Zimbabwe
with Greg Mills

EVENTS
Watch the Webinar: The ANC and Zimbabwe
with Greg Mills, Tendai Biti

NEWS
Is South Africa Descending into Failure?
Greg Mills
13 Aug 2020

PUBLICATIONS
Tracking the Covid-19 Pandemic in Africa: A Brief Data Profile
7 Aug 2020

EVENTS
Watch the Webinar: The Prospect of Building an Opposition Coalition in South Africa
with Greg Mills

NEWS
Steps towards a Smarter Lockdown: Game-Lodges
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
29 Jul 2020

PUBLICATIONS
South Africa's Greatest Economic Adversary...Itself - Finding Common Ground for Growth
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
23 Jul 2020

NEWS
South Africa at a Fork in the Road
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
22 Jul 2020

NEWS
Ten Years of Change in Three Months
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
22 Jul 2020

NEWS
Don't scrap the army - fix it
Greg Mills
22 Jul 2020

EVENTS
Watch the Webinar: The Economic Costs of South Africa's Lockdown
with Greg Mills

NEWS
It's time that Ramaphosa owned the wasted 26 years
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
28 Jun 2020

NEWS
Why we must open air travel - Dr Greg Mills on CapeTalk
Greg Mills
22 Jun 2020

NEWS
Identifying one quick win for the government
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
22 Jun 2020

NEWS
Will you have to fill Eskom's R30bn Covid hole?
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
18 Jun 2020

NEWS
Zimbabwe crumbles while SA looks on in 'solidarity'
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
18 Jun 2020

NEWS
How South Africa in 2020 compares with Singapore in 1995
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
17 Jun 2020

NEWS
ANC rhetoric bodes ill for SA's post-Covid economy
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
3 Jun 2020

NEWS
Ramaphosa's lockdown lesson: Trust is hard to build and easily broken
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
29 May 2020

NEWS
Electric cars? Stand aside (and in line) for Patel's Trabant
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
15 May 2020

NEWS
No, President Ramaphosa, this is not an intellectual exercise
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
5 May 2020

NEWS
An Iron Curtain Is Falling On Our Freedom
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
1 May 2020

NEWS
Handing over authority to securocrats has made Ramaphosa's 'heavy cross' impossible to bear
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
13 Apr 2020

NEWS
How much could Coronavirus cost the SA economy? A preliminary estimate
Emily van der Merwe, Greg Mills, Marie-Noelle Nwokolo, Ray Hartley
30 Mar 2020

NEWS
SA says it is ready for a coronavirus outbreak
Wilmot James
31 Jan 2020

PUBLICATIONS
Where the Rubber Hits the Road - The Future Of African Cities
Archimedes Muzenda, David Kilcullen, Dianna Games, Dickie Davis, Emily van der Merwe, Greg Mills, Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno, Nchimunya Hamukoma, Nicola Doyle, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ray Hartley, Sarah Calburn
27 Jan 2020

NEWS
Civilian oversight of the SA military slipping away
Greg Mills
27 Jan 2020

VIDEOS
The 10 Minute Interview - Thomas Schaefer, Chairman and Managing Director at Volkswagen Group South Africa
20 Jan 2020

NEWS
It's time for a clear and unifying national agenda
Mcebisi Jonas
16 Dec 2019

VIDEOS
The 10 Minute Interview - Helen Zille
Helen Zille
3 Dec 2019

VIDEOS
The 10 Minute Interview - Mcebisi Jonas
Mcebisi Jonas
27 Nov 2019

VIDEOS
The 10 Minute Interview - John Steenhuisen
25 Nov 2019

VIDEOS
The 10 Minute Interview - Mmusi Maimane
12 Nov 2019

NEWS
Fixing Eskom: Home Truths and Unavoidable Actions
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
11 Oct 2019

NEWS
Xenophobic attacks: Equivocation by South Africa is a silent nod of approval
Olusegun Obasanjo
3 Oct 2019

NEWS
Obasanjo visits Ramaphosa, Shares Democracy Works
30 Sep 2019

NEWS
South Africa must rev up its motor manufacturing engine or miss the bus
Emily van der Merwe, Greg Mills
5 Aug 2019

NEWS
Eskom - Too big to fail, or too big to save?
Greg Mills, Ray Hartley
3 Jun 2019

NEWS
Ramaphosa's choice for the declining ANC
Emily van der Merwe, Marie-Noelle Nwokolo
20 May 2019

NEWS
Energy reform in context
Nchimunya Hamukoma
4 Mar 2019

NEWS
Uncovering corruption is the easy part
Greg Mills
27 Feb 2019

NEWS
Morocco, the Western Sahara and SA's inverted moral compass
Greg Mills
26 Feb 2019

NEWS
The SANDF's Real Challenge: It's become a Welfare not a Warfare Agency
Greg Mills
30 Jan 2019

NEWS
Africa: Could South Africa Become a 'Fragile State'?
Greg Mills, Wilmot James
17 Jan 2019

NEWS
South Africa can learn from Costa Rica's track record of good decisions
Greg Mills, Lyal White
6 Dec 2018

NEWS
Tito's Tough Choices
Greg Mills
26 Oct 2018

NEWS
Confidential Memo to President Cyril Ramaphosa
Greg Mills, Jeffrey Herbst
11 Sep 2018

NEWS
What Lessons Can SAA Learn From Ethiopian Airlines?
Greg Mills
18 May 2018

NEWS
Cahora Bassa: The Intersection of Politics, Economics and Engineering
Greg Mills
9 Apr 2018

NEWS
Zimbabwe's land lesson for South African leader
Greg Mills, Jeffrey Herbst
26 Mar 2018

NEWS
Can Ramaphosa, Lourenço and Mnangagwa change Africa's fortunes?
Greg Mills, Jeffrey Herbst
21 Mar 2018

NEWS
South Africa and Mauritius — Why do countries reform?
Greg Mills
22 Feb 2018

NEWS
South Africa's Foreign Policy after Zuma
Greg Mills, Wilmot James
19 Feb 2018

NEWS
Getting rid of Zuma is one thing. Getting rid of his corrupt 'deep state' is another
Greg Mills, Jeffrey Herbst
21 Aug 2017

NEWS
Op-Ed: Six steps to fix South Africa's Economy
Greg Mills, Jeffrey Herbst
16 Aug 2017

NEWS
Why Zuma's eventual departure won't solve South Africa's woes
Jeffrey Herbst
16 Aug 2017

NEWS
Unexpected gaffes and unimagined harm in the two years since key political economic review
Greg Mills, Jeffrey Herbst
31 Jul 2017

NEWS
South Africa has reached its Mugabe moment
Greg Mills, Jeffrey Herbst
5 Apr 2017

NEWS
Op-Ed: South Africa's Foreign Policy after Zuma
Greg Mills, Wilmot James
13 Dec 2016

NEWS
Op-Ed: Renewing South Africa's promise in a time of crisis
Terence McNamee
13 Sep 2016

PUBLICATIONS
The Impact of Brexit on South Africa
Richard Gibb
10 Sep 2016

NEWS
Re-imagining Africa: What if big states did better?
Terence McNamee
22 Jan 2016

PUBLICATIONS
Harnessing the Power of Africa's Swing States
Terence McNamee
1 Jan 2016

PUBLICATIONS
Perspectives On African Security
Greg Mills, Olusegun Obasanjo
20 Mar 2014

PUBLICATIONS
An Option of Difficulties? A 21st Century South African Defence Review
Greg Mills
20 Jul 2011

NEWS
The Agents of Economic Reform
Greg Mills, Jeffrey Herbst
28 Feb 2011