Ciaran Ryan

2 days ago | citizen.co.za | Ciaran Ryan

SA’s 250 000-odd minibus taxis are a blessing or curse, depending on whether you’re a passenger or simply sharing the same road. They’ve rewritten the rules of the road to serve themselves and have made traffic lights irrelevant. No one seems willing to take them on, bar the odd metro police officer looking for a “Coke”.

3 days ago | citizen.co.za | Ciaran Ryan

Marine management company JS Maritime Partners has filed an urgent application in the Cape High Court to stop the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) from awarding a tender for the management of the state-owned SA Agulhas II and Algoa vessels on the grounds that it is tailor-made for the incumbent, Amsol. The DFFE says it will oppose the application.

4 days ago | writersroom.co.za | Ciaran Ryan

Ciaran Ryan joins John Perlman on Radio 702 to discuss the issue of ghost workers in the public sector and why is so little being done about it. The discussion can be found here. The Writer's Room is a curated by Ciaran Ryan, who has written on South African affairs for Sunday Times, Mail & Guardian, Financial Mail, Finweek, Noseweek, The Daily Telegraph, Forbes, USA Today, Acts Online and Lewrockwell.com, among others.

4 days ago | citizen.co.za | Ciaran Ryan

t took the South Africa Reserve Bank (Sarb) just two weeks to appeal a legal loophole that would allow unlimited funds to leave the country using cryptocurrencies. On Monday, it filed an appeal against a Pretoria High Court ruling that cryptocurrencies are not subject to South African exchange control regulations. The Sarb appeal has effectively shut off that legal loophole.

4 days ago | flipboard.com | Ciaran Ryan

21 hours agoStarmer issues warning after record number of small boat channel crossings in one daySir Keir Starmer has reiterated that‘‘nobody should be crossing the channel”, a day after a record number of migrants made the journey. Taking questions after he announced the Strategic Defence Review in Glasgow, the prime minister was grilled by GB News’ Katherine Foster on his “failure” to keep the British public “safe in the English channel”.