The need to reprise a golden age of foreign reporting
After the First World War and disastrous 1919 Paris peace accord, four young American would-be journalists rolled up on European shores.
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News Focus: undercomensation threatens dependants, IRR argues
In two press releases yesterday, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) underscored the multi-generational importance of affirming and extending property rights to South Africa’s women, and warned how the country’s property expropriation legislation posed a potential threat to children.
March and March marches on!
Today’s live show with Makone Maja and Nicholas Lorimer react to the latest weird, wonderful and woeful news from South Africa. They discuss March and March, their meeting with AfriForum, Nomvula Mokonyane’s interview on Women in SA, and the accusations
Identity politics speaks many languages
Ethnic nationalism, “group rights” and “cultural rights” come in left-wing and right-wing flavours. All are incompatible with a free society founded on individual rights and equality before the law.
Monty Python and the great energy marketplace
If we ignore fossil fuels (and we really shouldn’t – they are still the dominant energy source and will be for some time) and try to cut through the extraordinary amount of energy-tech hype spewed out by various true believers,
When the ANC goes, Labour does too
In the secret weekly competition between the ANC and the UK Labour Party, in which each tries to outshit the other, there was something of a photo-finish at 10pm last Friday.
Competing with the world to keep skills means getting policies right – IRR
Race laws, insecure property rights, and corruption are barriers to investment in South Africa, and barriers to job creation and the realisation of a better life for South Africans, says Makone Maja, strategic engagements manager at the Institute of Race
The high costs of “free” university education
The African National Congress (ANC), which continues to dominate the Government of National Unity (GNU) despite its reduced voter support, has long been determined to “massify” universities and provide “free” education for poor and working-class students.
Really, professors?
Professor Pierre de Vos is a professor of constitutional law at UCT. He occupies the Claude Leon chair at that august institution. Jonny Steinberg was a professor of African Studies at Oxford for nine years.