OPINIONISTA 28 August 2023 New political leaders who actually know how to run a modern economy are needed for SA By Mandla Lionel Isaacs 6 min 7
OPINIONISTA 22 May 2023 Resetting South Africa’s public leadership culture is the only way out of our dysfunctional state of affairs By Mandla Lionel Isaacs 5 min 8
OPINIONISTA 2 March 2022 SA’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exposes the moral and strategic incoherence of our foreign policy By Mandla Lionel Isaacs 1 min 12
OPINIONISTA 21 February 2022 The business of running South Africa: Who should manage the economy? By Mandla Lionel Isaacs 4 min 1
OPINIONISTA 30 May 2021 The African century has not yet begun — these are the reasons it remains elusive (Part Two) By Mandla Lionel Isaacs 7 min 3
OPINIONISTA 27 May 2021 The African century has not yet begun — these are the reasons it remains elusive (Part One) By Mandla Lionel Isaacs 7 min 1
OPINIONISTA 15 March 2021 South African politics: Parties are not the problem — and independent candidates are not the solution By Mandla Lionel Isaacs 6 min 4
OPINIONISTA 10 January 2021 The root cause of South Africa’s decline that shall not be named By Mandla Lionel Isaacs 7 min 32
OPINIONISTA 5 May 2020 The politics of the pandemic and the pandemic of politics By Mandla Lionel Isaacs 5 min 0
OPINIONISTA 23 April 2020 Ramaphosa’s historic opportunity: Towards a generational economic transformation after the pandemic By Mandla Lionel Isaacs 11 min 0
OPINIONISTA 14 April 2020 Covid-19 is stretching government’s economic policymaking capacity to the limit By Mandla Lionel Isaacs 5 min 0
OPINIONISTA 3 March 2020 ‘Campaign in poetry, govern in prose’ – government should be all about delivery, not lofty promises By Mandla Lionel Isaacs 5 min 0