Author Archives: Chris Hattingh
The General Motors disinvestment shows politicians that reality bites
The recent announcement by General Motors (GM) that it will disinvest from South Africa after 2017 should not come as a surprise to South Africans. As much as we might…
Could a simple plant end the opioid crisis in America?
The marijuana leaf could be the key to ending the opioid crisis as we know it. Roughly 60 percent of the American population lives in the 28 states and Washington…
Why SA is failing to resolve its racial problem Part 2 – The costly illusion of racial superiority
READ PART ONE HERE The political divide between black and white in South Africa since 1994 is widening at an alarming rate. If it continues to do so, the outcome…
Why SA Fails to Resolve Racism – The Deep Roots of Racism (Part 1)
Racism today is widely categorised as a moral crime, held to arise from individual moral aberration. The problem with this moralistic interpretation is that not only is it not true,…
Kenya’s Political Fuss
Kenya is about three months away from the 7 August 2017 general elections. A special sitting of Parliament to debate changes to the electoral law ended with a fist fight…
The die is cast
'Radical economic transformation' will lead South Africa to bankruptcy. Then comes the IMF and the World Bank crisis loans as well as structural adjustment programs (which are nothing but an…
Release the Lion
We don't have to be stuck between two mythical deities known as white monopoly capital and state capture, both are an attempt to frame all our problems around one single…
Altruism for the Basis of Left-Wing Thought
Political thought in the West today is broadly divided into two camps – the left-wing and the right-wing. Each of these represents a very different worldview, and in order to…
This is the Socialism you wanted
The latest political machinations of Jacob Zuma have caused outrage across the nation, from the leafy suburbs of Sandton, to the offices of our political commentators and analysts, to the…
Left-Wing Thought as Secular Religion
Click here to read the first part of this series. Left-wing ideologies, as we’ve seen, are based on the demand that people’s primary behaviour be altruistic rather than self-interested, even…