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Alec Hogg's five signals in South Africa: privatisation by stealth, institutions under stress, coalition politics, AI and a fragmenting world.

Data centre spending could dwarf the railway and dotcom booms, but economists warn the productivity gains needed to repay it remain elusive.

How Johannesburg was broken. Former councillor Ivor Blumenthal argues cable theft, tanker cartels and construction mafias are not failures of governance but its business model.

Terence Corrigan says South Africans want jobs, not race policy, and that clinging to a failing framework is the bigger threat to democracy.

Their return a generation after Robert Mugabe’s land grabs reflects the country’s potential—and its troubles