The energy industry is under relentless siege as the global warming blame game heats up, writes Keith Bryer.
Much rests on the revival of apprenticeships, and not only in terms of youth employment writes Keith Bryer.
The prophets of doom tend to forget that humans are infinitely adaptable, writes Keith Bryer.
Reducing the number of civil servants anywhere is no easy thing, writes Keith Bryer.
If disgruntled dealers do mount a class action against Caltex, it will probably centre on the minutiae of the contracts they signed over the years, writes Keith ...
You can do business the brutal way or the decent way. Keith Bryer reflects on the dilemma of morals versus profit.
Florida’s successful method of creating jobs for its citizens cannot be ignored, writes Keith Bryer.
The Paris climate treaty is just hot air as China eats up more fossil fuels, writes Keith Bryer.
The negatives of trade unions in South Africa outnumber the positives, writes Keith Bryer.
Anyone serious about alleviating poverty in SA might consider hemp, the non-drug kind.
Attacks on the economics of free enterprise (that successful way of improving the lot of human beings that pre-dates the abject failure of socialism by millennia) ...
All that the fashionable alarm about globalisation, warming the planet, changing climate, protecting wild nature, have in common is an attack on an economic system ...
If marketing is the art of persuading consumers to buy things, then the initial promoters of “organic” foods – all amateurs with little or no marketing experience ...
The intolerance of dissenting views by the Green Lobby is an unpleasant aspect of some of its members.
If ever there was a cast-iron argument for a new nuclear power station, it is the news of what it is costing Eskom (and, therefore, all electricity consumers) to ...
The head of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), Joseph Mathunjwa, is to write to Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) about reports that the ...
Ever since the Nazis proved it, it has been an axiom of propagandists that it does not matter what you say as long as you say it loudly and often. Follow this simple ...
You cannot make a reliable atomic bomb with the waste from a thorium reactor. They tried to do it during the Cold War but dropped the idea when it proved difficult ...
If EF Schumacher was right and “Small is beautiful”, what would he have made of the mini-nuclear power stations being developed in the US, especially now that Bill ...
Almost everyone says fracking for oil and gas in shale is a game changer and its resultant cheap, abundant energy will fundamentally alter the world economy, dependent ...
Technology has been under attack for years. It is no longer seen as the vanguard of progress, but as its nemesis. The fault is the general assault on free markets ...
While South African trade unions tear themselves apart, toyi-toyi against toll roads and believe in an archaic form of economic thinking, human ingenuity is busy ...
A few years back when James Lovelock came out in favour of nuclear energy, the wailing and gnashing of teeth among environmentalists was something to behold. It ...
Much has been made of the total costs of strikes and the damage they do to the economy. Huge numbers equating to lost production are put forward, but very little ...