HeyJaredXhanti Payi
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 2, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Businessday
- Top 100K sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 8, 2026
Latest articles
XHANTI PAYI | Sector-wise approach of Ramaphosa and partners is encouraging (opens the original)
Read excerpt
There is an encouraging shift in how we now think about and articulate pathways to economic growth and development in South Africa. For a long time, macro policy debates have treated “the economy” as a monolith ― a single, abstract machine in which just turning a macro lever at the top automatically sets off outcomes that trickle down into pervasive, dynamic local activity. We are now realising that reality does not work in this almost arbitrary way. An economy is not just one thing but a comple
XHANTI PAYI | The myth of the middle-class spender (opens the original)
Read excerpt
New York city mayor Zohran Mamdani is achieving what his opponents argued he could not. Among his achievements is universal childcare, affordable housing and improvements in public travel. In so doing, he has challenged not just his opponents, but an assertion by his African scholar father. In his landmark 1996 work Citizen and Subject, Prof Mahmood Mamdani described how post-colonial states often failed to deliver full civic rights and state provisions to their populations. The implicit promise
XHANTI PAYI | The diagnostic trap: why society is addicted to the problem and allergic to the cure (opens the original)
Read excerpt
In psychology, the concept of fixation describes an obsessive focus or strong attachment to a person, idea or object, often stemming from unresolved childhood conflicts (in Freudian theory) or a mental rigidity that prevents new perspectives (in cognitive psychology). Economists describe a closely related phenomenon known as path dependence — a reality where past events or choices lock a system into a specific trajectory, making it incredibly difficult to switch to better, more efficient alterna
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
Top 100K sites
For Businessday, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026
Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.