Time to jettison the “net zero” illusion
Following last week’s reshuffle of the GNU cabinet, South Africa has a new minister of forestry, fisheries and the environment, the DA’s David Maynier. The country also needs a new approach to climate change: one that is far more realistic
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Constitutional Court rules against development
Michael Morris and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the Tafelberg School Constitutional Court ruling. They also discuss the importance of the middle class and the Treasury’s restrictions on payments to municipalities. https://youtube.com/live/BxzZ6p2lTWM?feature=share
The DA and the uncertainty of the second transition
In what was billed by the DA as his first major policy address, the party’s recently elected leader, Geordin Hill-Lewis, spoke last week about the country’s second transition, what he termed “a brand-new era”.
Why the youth don’t vote – and why that may be changing
Historically, there has been a problem with the youth not voting in elections.
Neglect at De Brug – betrayal we cannot accept
As I read the reports emerging from the Department of Defence Mobilisation Centre at De Brug in Bloemfontein this week, a deep and familiar pain rises in me.
Rhino horn, the law, and a chance SA should not waste
Dear Minister Maynier, You have hardly had time to settle into the portfolio, and already one of its hardest questions is on your desk. The Northern Cape High Court has refused government leave to appeal in the Diedericks rhino horn
IRR to research reasons for emigration, and what’s needed to halt brain drain
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) is launching a Diaspora Survey this week as part of its #WhatSACanBe campaign to better understand South Africans’ reasons for packing up and settling elsewhere, and what the country needs to do to convince
ANC spooked by March and March
Nicholas Lorimer and Chris Hattingh discuss the ANC’s response to March and March, the dispute over the Eskom transmission grid, and the national government’s suspension of payments to Johannesburg. https://youtube.com/live/K-Je9RLPaIQ?feature=share
The liberty of gender identity
A classical liberal need not settle the metaphysics of gender to know what the state should do about it: as little as possible.