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The African Continental Free Trade Area I – An Introduction to AfCFTA
This brief explores the current status of the historic African free trade agreement, an agreement intended to unite fifty-four African states and over a ...
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The Coming Demographic Crisis In Sub-Saharan Africa
In this brief Charles Simkins explores the coming demographic crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Eskom’s latest tariff application - Our Submission to the National Energy Regulator
This brief contains a summary of the Helen Suzman Foundation’s submission to the National Energy Regulator on Eskom’s latest tariff application. It describes ...
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The President’s Economic Recovery Plan - Some observations
The President announced an economic recovery plan on 20 September. The purpose of this brief is to comment on some of its silences: the absence of important ...
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Land reform - The developmental state on the job
In this brief, Charles Simkins tracks the land reform process both at the executive and legislative phases and offers insights into the challenges ahead.
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Land Expropriation and South Africa’s Financial Institutions
This brief considers the potential effects of land expropriation without compensation on the financial institutions of South Africa.
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The National Assembly’s Finance Standing Committee Fakes It
On 14 August 2018, representatives of the World Bank presented their ‘systematic country diagnostic’ report entitled An incomplete transition: Overcoming the ...
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The Davis Tax Committee Wealth Tax Report - An Overview
In anticipation of the Davis Tax Committee Wealth Tax Report, the HSF published a series of briefs last year on a wealth tax and whether it was viable method ...
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Eskom’s 2018 Financial Results
This brief provides a commentary on the main features of Eskom’s 2018 annual financial statements, released on 23 July 2018.
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Can we start the long haul now?
We live in a vertiginous age, in a Dadaesque social and political world. Can the ground be prepared for economic recovery in this politically unstable ...
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