You can’t defend liberalism with tribalism
There is an increasingly prevalent view among some within the broad South African liberal community that liberalism needs more elements of identity politics, group focus,
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The Smarties solution
Let’s face it: growing old is a miserable story. Take for example one old toppie who thinks he has it all planned out. At the age of seventy he sells up and moves into the Golden Years Retirement Village. A
Self-determination is not a dirty word
One of the biggest obstacles to a radically better future for the peoples of South Africa is squeamishness about the use of two words. As a teenage boy, I grew up in the UK during the onset of the AIDS
Race, income and the astronomical potential of Nelson Mandela Bay
South Africa is 20% Wakanda and 80% Flea Bottom. That is the impression I got from the paper, Racial Inequality and Redistribution in Post-Apartheid South Africa, which examines income, taxes and government transfers between 1993 and 2019, using a database
Being humane, part two: nudging society towards genetic health
The first part of this essay detailed how our basic humanity has gradually resulted in an accumulation of genetic problems. One term that captures the general burden involved is ‘genetic load’. In this second part, I look at the humane
Birds that are feather-brained flock together …
Noah and I are lunching together. His brow is furrowed and his eyes are narrowed. I know this expression well. It is a lover troubled by a thought. A one-liner floats into my mind. It is the one about the
News Focus: limiting citizenship to loyalists would flout Constitution
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has condemned the proposal by Supra Mahumapelo, chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation, that legislation be introduced to allow the state to strip South Africans of their citizenship for spreading
We are not “frontiersmen”
AfriForum’s Ernst van Zyl claims to welcome the Free Market Foundation’s “embrace of a frontiersmen mindset”. That’s exactly the problem. In response to my dismay at the Free Market Foundation’s mission to the United States in support of Solidarity and
In helping Ukraine, we protect ourselves
We have just returned from a ten-day visit to Ukraine, with meetings in Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro. We met extraordinary innovators at drone factories and visited war-weary but motivated soldiers close to the kill-zone. We heard from NGOs, media