Census 2022 is in safe hands despite the doubting Thomases

Pali Lehohla|Published

OPINION: The pain of being missed in a national count is very painful, but the statistician-general and his team of experts have the medicine for that headache, ...

Fight for portfolios between ANC and DA was much to do about nothing

Pali Lehohla|Published

THE REAL NUMBERS COLUMN: When the DA and the ANC squabble over the dry bone of the economic cluster and fail to focus on the rump of economic policy, it boggles ...

Skills crisis: SA youth cannot win as game of life is rigged at birth

Pali Lehohla|Published

OPINION: While the country cries for skills, the country scores an own goal by constraining options of entry to higher education, writes Dr Pali Lehohla.

Why government spin on load shedding helps no one

Pali Lehohla|Published

OPINION: Night is different from day. Constant availability of electricity from Eskom has made us forget that this reality is real. Only when load shedding persisted ...

Policy vacuum at centre of ANC’s upcoming conference won’t answer economic challenges

Pali Lehohla|Published

OPINION: The slates and lists are running crazy on social media, but with no discussions about policies, writes Dr Pali Lehohla.

Jagersfontein disaster: The tale of the juju bird and system failures

Pali Lehohla|Published

OPINION: The disaster at Jagersfontein mine tailings is symptomatic of a much broader problem that South Africa faces, which is one of poor leadership, writes Dr ...

Greed continues to deafen and blind SA

Pali Lehohla|Published

OPINION: We have not moved on from Milton Friedman’s mantra that ’the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits’, writes Dr Pali Lehohla.

’Indlulamithi’ scenarios: Do we know where we are going?

Pali Lehohla|Published

OPINION: Many South Africans wonder whether the government we elected to lead knows where it is leading us to, writes Dr Pali Lehohla.

Where is the excellence? SA is awash with moribund politics

Pali Lehohla|Published

OPINION: South Africans are kept from basking in the euphoria of success as the pain of load shedding and the tormented economic and political life we have created ...

OPINION: Eskom split misses mark as load shedding continues unabated

Pali Lehohla|Published

On Wednesday, load shedding reached unprecedented proportions in an economy that operates far below what should cause pressure on Eskom’s capacity of electricity ...