We can’t fix SA if we don’t fix Joburg Ann Bernstein August 24, 2026 South Africa cannot restore growth, expand opportunity and attract investment while Johannesburg continues its disastrous decline. Preventing the col... How SA’s draft procurement regulations will raise costs, deepen corruption Ann Bernstein July 28, 2026 Public procurement is where the state meets the market. It is the mechanism through which government buys the goods, services and infrastructure it n... Procurement reforms risk making the state less effective Ann Bernstein July 16, 2026 There is no authoritative estimate of the value of goods and services procured by government departments and state-owned entities from the private se... Proposed BBBEE shake-up is reckless and must be stopped Ann Bernstein April 17, 2026 Proposals are a huge bet on the idea of a Transformation Fund, whose details have not even been made public. The achievement of the goals of broad-b... Doubling down on B-BBEE is just plain wrong Ann Bernstein April 7, 2026 When President Cyril Ramaphosa announced in his Sona that the government was undertaking a review to “refine, realign and strengthen” the broad-based... SA’s economy is failing its young people Ann Bernstein and Stefan Schirmer March 30, 2026 Almost 12.5-million South Africans are unemployed. Many of them are young people desperately trying to find their first job. However, President Cyril...
