[Opinion] Education in South Africa: No bang for our buck
16 January 2022 - “When it comes to questions around SA’s education system, it is not a matter of availability of money and how much is spent. Rather, it is about the management and proper allocation of available resources.”
[Opinion] ANC’s hegemony is over: a new era has begun
Coalition politics are set to become the norm and the share of the vote of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 2024 national and provincial elections will remain below 50%.
[Opinion] Numsa strike unjustified as rise in steel price will hit manufacturers
Not all enterprises are able to pass the increases on to consumers.
[Opinion] Upcoming local elections and democracy in South Africa
17 September 2021 - The long list of problems in South Africa, including poverty, corruption and inequality, may hold the voters back from participating in the upcoming elections.
[Audio] Why there is no necessary reform
David Ansara, Chief Operating Officer of the CRA, was interviewed by Sara Gon on Chai FM about the reasons for the lack of policy reform in South Africa.
[Podcast] Risk and having a Plan B
My guest, David Ansara from the "Solutions with David Ansara" podcast, is the Chief Operating Office of the Centre for Risk Analysis.
[News] ‘Pink Vote’ an untapped market for SA political parties
“Gerbrandt van Heerden, the author of The SA Pink Vote report, said if political parties continued to ignore the LGBTQ voting bloc during elections, they risked missing out on an active, dynamic and electorally valuable market.”
[Opinion] The Economics Underpinning South Africa’s Riots
It has been labelled as South Africa’s worst episode of civil unrest since the days of apartheid. The rioting that occurred following the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma for contempt of court on July 7—specifically, for failing to show up for an official inquiry into his alleged corruption during his nine-year presidency—has been among the darkest chapters in the country’s recent history.