Opinion

June 2025: The liquor industry’s resistance to reforms and public health measures aimed at curbing South Africa’s high alcohol consumption reveals a deep divide between corporate interests and the public good. Argues Phindile Kunene in Mail and Guardian

June 2025: The debate about racialised socio-economic redress is at the centre of South African public policy debates. It has even permeated trade relations with the United States, which ironically has its own version of economic redress for minority groups in certain states. Argues Dr Khwezi Mabasa in Mail and Guardian

May 2025: The creation of decent employment, as defined by the International Labour Organisation, is a fundamental policy objective in all of South Africa’s development plans. States Dr Khwezi Mabasa in Mail and Guardian

April 2025: The "steady erosion of infrastructure has profoundly affected the quality of life in Gauteng". Our colleague Phindile Kunene calling for "genuine citizen engagement" and a sense of "responsibility towards the commons" in The Sowetan.

March 2025: Make your coalition work. Don't copy the far right's agenda or sound. Invest in a capable state, in public services and infrastructure. Some lessons from the German elections resonate. And the course of the future coalition is of interest to as well, argues our director Sebastian Sperling in Mail and Guardian.

March 2025: "Racial redress interventions such as land expropriation and redistribution are essential for transforming the country’s persistent racialised inequalities”, argues our colleague Dr Khwezi Mabasa in Mail and Guardian.

Dr Khwezi Mabasa argueing for a more progressive tax system at SABC News.

Our Head of Economic and Social Policy, Dr Khwezi Mabasa, arguest that the Democratic Alliance´s attack on racial redress undermines inclusive growth.

It is obvious that we are no longer living in the world of the turn of the century; the most unipolar moment if there ever was one, after the collapse of the Soviet Union...

Three Decades of South African Foreign Policy: Reflections on successes, challenges and way forward in a dynamic 21st century.