Our Long Walk
Johan FourieSouth Africa's economic past, present and future
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For the last eight or so weeks, I have worked sixteen-hour days. I have enjoyed almost every one of them. My shoulders have been in spasm for almost the e...
The economy under your skin
Pour yourself a glass of milk. Whether your body can handle it – whether the sugar in it passes through you or leaves you doubled over by mid-afternoon – was largely settled by an economic decision your ancestors made around six thousand ye...
Ozempic externalities
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Two point one
On the night of Sunday 7 March 1875, every household in the Cape Colony had to account for itself. The enumerators counted 720 984 people – 369 628 men and 351 356 women. Most were asleep in houses and huts; 4 666 were in tents and wagons,...
How (South) Africans use AI
The latest evidence from Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI
On page 53 of the 100-page atlas Google published this week sits a map that would have puzzled the cartographers of empire. It colours each country by the share of its AI con...
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South African economic historian and author of 'Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom' (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
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