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GHALEB CACHALIA | ‘Unglamorous’ competence to halt Joburg’s decay (opens the original)
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Johannesburg is dying ― water doesn’t reach taps, power cuts out without warning, roads collapse into potholes so deep they have developed their own microclimates. Against that backdrop, Helen Zille’s arrival as the DA’s mayoral candidate feels less like an inspired choice than an exhausted one, a vote cast not out of enthusiasm but out of the desperate hope that someone ― anyone ― might fix it. Zille has run cities before ― Cape Town from 2006 and the Western Cape from 2009-19, and the audit re
GHALEB CACHALIA | Burke affair tests DA’s commitment to transparency (opens the original)
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There are two ways to read the Mark Burke affair. One is that South Africa’s exchange control regime is an anachronistic relic of an era before crypto, instant cross-border payments and sophisticated fintech. The other is less comfortable: a fintech business operating squarely inside that regime may have designed a model that didn’t navigate the rules but circumvented them. Both can be true at once. That is why the controversy over the DA federal finance chair and his company, Kastelo, deserves
GHALEB CACHALIA | Bogotá offers lessons for Johannesburg (opens the original)
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Bogotá was once a byword for crime, corruption and collapsed public trust, worse than anything Johannesburg claims today. Then, across three mayoral terms in the 1990s, two quite different men — Antanas Mockus, a philosopher who taught civic behaviour before he taught policy, and Enrique Peñalosa, an engineer obsessed with public space — built a city that worked and worked for everyone. Buses, parks, schools and libraries went first to the poorest barrios, not the richest. Neither man ran on ide
GHALEB CACHALIA | SA students haven’t yet found their ‘unifying insult’ (opens the original)
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Arundhati Roy’s latest dispatch for The Wire takes its name from an insult. India’s chief justice, irritated by unemployed graduates and social media agitators, called them cockroaches and parasites. Within weeks Gen Z had turned the slur into a brand. The Cockroach Janta Party — a satirical take on the governing Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) — camped out in central New Delhi, refusing to be swept away over a botched medical entrance exam and a marking scandal that has since metastasised into a d
GHALEB CACHALIA | Lobbying register needed, not an influence scandal (opens the original)
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Nigel Farage and Tony Leon inhabit different political universes. Yet the controversies now surrounding both men illuminate the same uncomfortable truth — in modern democracies, secrecy is often more corrosive than corruption itself. Farage’s latest political theatre was vintage populism. Rather than await the outcome of a parliamentary standards investigation into an allegedly undeclared £5m donation, he seized the initiative, resigning his seat and forcing a by-election framed as a battle betw
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