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.
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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.
Why liberals should support AfriForum and the Solidarity Movement
For reasons that continue to mystify, many supposed classical liberals cannot help but lay into AfriForum and the Solidarity Movement with criticism they do not give to other non-liberals.
South Africa abandons its swimmers | Leah Potgieter
Nicholas Lorimer speaks to DA MP Leah Potgieter about South Africa’s swimming athletes, the role of sport in building a better society, and why quotas are bad for sport. Read her article here: The medals we celebrate and the swimmers
This is why we can’t have nice things
South Africa needs economic development. It also needs oil and gas. Foreign-funded eco-lawfare is ensuring it gets neither.
When the market builds what the state cannot deliver
A two-bedroom house in Protea Glen, Soweto, now sells for R1.03 million. It sits behind a boom gate, inside a perimeter wall, with private security patrolling a neighbourhood of paved roads and managed common areas. Emperors Security Estate, developed by
Qatar’s destabilisation of Middle Eastern geopolitics
Understanding Qatar's role in Middle Eastern geopolitics is crucial to understanding the geopolitics of the Middle East as a whole, and the way Islamism has served as a powerful tool of foreign policy for Qatar*.
What’s needed to equip SA’s “long-stifled” economy to “expand and prosper” – IRR
It is time for the Government of National Unity to “think out of the box” and embrace the key reforms now urgently needed to boost growth, stimulate job-creation and create a real skills revolution in the education sector.
Of Equalisers and Liberators
The political vocabulary we continue to use is not just redundant, it impairs our ability to make accurate political judgements, to assess political policies, and to chart a new political future.