Stop trying to build state capacity

That the state lacks the capacity to provide many services should come as no surprise to the Hayekian liberal.

Elections are a matter of perspective

That self-effacing “humble newspaperman”, Mondli Makhanya, has outdone himself by penning a couple of choice phrases in his predictions for the ANC’s fortunes in the upcoming municipal elections.

So woke was a scam. Who knew?

I liked how US congresswoman and saucy LatinX Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) spoke about ‘woke’ recently on American television. Talking about yet another mentally deranged Democratic Socialists and a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly called Francesca Hong, AOC quoted a

Turning TVET training into a valued option

The de-massification of universities via new funding and admission rules must be accompanied by major reforms to technical and vocational training.

The unacceptable risks of the safetyist religion 

Last Saturday, two Airlink Embraers in Springbok and All Black colours flew over Cape Town’s DHL Stadium just before South Africa played New Zealand. The crowd roared, but pockets of the internet – as it now does with anything that looks like a “near-miss” – turned to hysteria.

Five days in July – the bizarre paradox of an obedient AI

By now most people have seen the media reports of an unauthorised hack by a swarm of OpenAI-created AI agents into an external site called Hugging Face. The details of how this hack happened are technical and gnarly and multilayered

Fix it?

Why November 4th is so important in Gauteng

The local government elections on November 4th are of special importance in Gauteng. The province is the economic hub of the country, and its three largest cities, Johannesburg, Tshwane, and Ekhuruleni, are all collapsing after years of ANC rule.  And as