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This is the 18 th  in this series of Saturday Blogs. These share ideas aimed at correcting problems and improving life for all in South Africa. The general idea is that these should not require humanity to be at its altruistic, honest best for them to be effective. They should be quick and relatively cheap to institute. The goals are to reduce the opportunity and temptation for corruption, reduce red tape and bureaucracy, increase growth, get services to more people for less

This is the 17 th  edition of this blog. In this week’s edition I return to the economy. All fixes start with the economy. Without economic growth there can be no new jobs, so no lasting reduction in poverty. Without economic growth there cannot be a sustainable increase in tax paid to the government for all of its programmes – including police, justice, education, health and infrastructure. We must simply do everything possible to encourage economic growth. So far I have sug

This is the 16 th  edition of this weekly blog aimed at helping improve South Africa. The general idea is to make proposals that are “easy” to institute and can be done at a stroke of a pen and do not rely on officials or politicians or citizens to have perfect motives for success to be achieved. What? Government should reduce the maximum allowable interest rate in the national credit act to double the reserve bank rate (REPO rate). Above which rate the lender will be guilty

This blog is a further idea in the series trying to reduce corruption and improve political contestation (see blogs #1, #2 and #7) Political party funding WHAT? All private funding of political parties in cash or in kind must be banned. Instead, the state alone must fund political campaigns. WHY? Political party funding by individuals or companies is inherently problematic. A political party with large financial resources can afford to pay for a much greater presence in every

This is the fourteenth in this weekly blog post of ideas that can help fix South Africa. The general concept of the series is things that can be done quickly, cheaply and will cost very little or (as in this weeks case) save money. I first heard this idea from the Soccer party in 1994 – remember them? This was posted to Facebook on 1 November 2025   What? Government must stop using VAT as a way to collect money from everyone and rather take a small percentage of every transac

This is the thirteenth edition of this weekly blog posted to Facebook. As always the concept behind this blog is that we urgently need new ideas that are “broad brush” – radically improving wide areas, costing little or nothing and immediately implementable. These plans must not rely on people behaving the way humanity behave at their very best, they must be practical when humanity is, well, human. At the same time, these must move us generally towards a model for a sustainab

This is the twelfth edition of this weekly blog and was posted to Facebook on 18 October 2025. Please send suggestions to : suggestions@nationaldialogueblogsa.com Note that every new policy has negatives, there is no free lunch. In the interests of brevity and clarity, I will not always be going into deep detail of the why and why not or the mitigations which may be in other blogs.   What? Increasing labour market flexibility and competitiveness. Why? We have massive unemploy

This is the eleventh edition of this weekly blog. I had been planning to make this particular post in a few weeks – but brought it...

This is the tenth edition of this blog. This covers a set of ideas to improve basic education. Our unemployment crisis is multifactorial...

This is the ninth edition of this weekly blog aimed at suggesting immediately implementable ideas to help South Africa. This Blog was...

This is the eighth edition of this weekly blog aimed at suggesting immediately implementable ideas to help South Africa and was posted to...

This is the seventh edition of this weekly blog posted every saturday to Facebook. The thought behind this blog is to feature broad...

This is the sixth in this weekly series ideas aimed at helping South Africa solve our major problems   What? The government should...

Week one was the idea of doing away with cash money to radically reduce crime. Week two was a constitutional amendment to give us the right to honest government by having the two biggest parties together agreeing on the appointments for the guardians of Justice positions. Week three was the plan that government should not hold the title deeds of land that morally belongs to individual citizens and should sell unneeded state land to raise capital Week four was a plan to radica

This is the fourth in this weekly series of ideas that will be quick to do, have a major impact across the whole of South Africa and cost...

What? Government must transfer the title deeds of all RDP houses to their occupiers to make them owners with no restrictions. Government...

This blog is intended to build South Africa. Clearly the beloved country is suffering. We urgently need new ideas that are “broad brush”...

Posted to Facebook 26 July 2025 Crime and corruption are the root of our why our problems are getting worse and not better. Without a...

Blog post 2 , 2 August 2025 Crime winning is impossible without the corruption and the crippling of the criminal justice system....