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What Claude Code means for the future of work
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Rainbow Nation 2.0?
Lessons from the economics of nation-building
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Should you buy the dip?
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The ruinous growth of sports betting in South Africa
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Fourie vs StatsSA
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Why America wants Afrikaners
Feb 10, 2025
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The battle for Botmaskop
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Twenty years at Stellenbosch
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Feb 9
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Three lessons from the 18th-century Cape
On non-neutral data, markets that are social, and inequality
Feb 6
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Are we suffering from a crisis of imagination?
SEASON 2, EPISODE 8: Xolela Mangcu on Mandela, Biko, the Bunga, and why South Africa needs a new politics of trust
Feb 3
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Newspapers that write history
And how a new South African entity can help us do so
Feb 2
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Who Was The Perfect Soldier?
Chapter 23 of Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom
Jan 30
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Fighting fires
One of the oldest Cape traditions
Jan 26
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The latest, greatest #econhist research
These are the papers we're reading in my 2026 graduate economic history course
Jan 23
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How to win Afcon
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Can everyone in the world escape poverty?
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