We keep having the wrong argument about safety in South Africa
South Africans have spent years arguing about farm attacks. One side sees them as a national crisis demanding urgent intervention. The other argues that they are too often presented as evidence of a unique victimhood that obscures broader patterns of
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Our three hapless two-term presidents
Since the demise of the parliamentary sovereignty of the white component of SA and its replacement with constitutional democracy under the rule of law, there have been three two-term presidents in SA. Thabo Mbeki, who succeeded one-term Nelson Mandela, our
The Battle for Language
Admittedly I can’t remember the last time a woman was last angry with me, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t smack her on the bottom and tell her to shut up and make me a martini. Doesn’t work, that kind
Why should SA keep policy that has failed the poor, IRR asks
After 25 years of BEE policy, Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau “must explain why South Africa should persist with race-based laws that have failed the poor when workable alternatives exist to empower the disadvantaged directly”. This is the
Ramaphosa vs Parliament
Makone Maja and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the latest developments surrounding the impeachment committee, Park Tau’s defence of BEE, and Helen Zille’s meeting with March and March. https://www.youtube.com/live/yTpf90nBxCo?si=UXSb-cd-wR9z6PLJ
What is to be done about the PIE Act?
The housing minister’s proposed amendment bill is no solution to the problems posed by the Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act of 1998 (“the PIE Act”), as outlined in these pages last week. How then
Britain calls it quits on parenthood – where to, South Africa?
In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels posed a proposition that scandalised even many of their radical contemporaries: “Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.” Leave it to their intellectual
The reckless stupidity of the Anthropic Fable affair
The Anthropic Fable saga is so entangled in the messy centre of tech and politics that it is a challenge to see a clear narrative on which to hang the story. But it is important because it is a version
Make 17 June “No More Race Laws Day”, IRR urges
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has suggested that the government adopt its draft No More Race Laws Bill to “complete the work begun on 17 June 1991”, when Parliament the Population Registration Act of 1950. In a statement, the