South Africa's economic past, present and future
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A picture is worth 34,000 numbers
On statistics, psychic numbing and three Fourie girls in the Anglo-Boer War
A photograph crossed my Facebook feed last week. Three girls in front of a tent flap. The eldest stands in a green-print dress; the youngest sits on a wooden chair...
Running towards
Meet Carel. In February 1834, on a farm outside Worcester, a 55-year-old enslaved coppersmith slipped his owner’s grip and disappeared. He had done it before. Sometime, somewhere along the way, he had picked up an Irish-sounding alias: ‘Mr...
Skills for economic historians
A fortnight ago, in The oldest tool in the book, I wrote about the knappers of Jojosi: the people who, for more than 100,000 years, walked back to the same hornfels outcrop above a KwaZulu-Natal river to chip blades from the same dark, fine...
An AI policy that empowers
South Africa’s first attempt at a national AI policy was withdrawn sixteen days after it was gazetted. The reason given was that several references in the bibliography turned out not to exist. The deeper problem was that the withdrawn draft...
What we've built
South Africa's constitution at 30
On 8 May 1996, Nelson Mandela rose in the Constitutional Assembly to celebrate a document that had taken two years of negotiation, compromise, and no small amount of faith. ‘The Constitution whose adoption...
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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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