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TDF on holiday

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To all our valued readers, the Daily Friend will be on a well-deserved break until next year. We will still be publishing occasional opinion pieces

Daily Friend Special: Britain is subduing free speech with Simon Lincoln Reader

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In this Daily Friend Show Special Sara Gon interviews DF contributor and fund manager, Simon Lincoln Reader, about the bizarre and chilling clamping down on

Daily Friend Special: Securing the tools to defeat corruption, an interview with Paul Hoffman

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In this special episode Nicholas Lorimer talks to Advocate Paul Hoffman about a private member’s bill to create a new chapter 9 institution which would

Ramaphosa shuffling cabinet

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Today’s Daily Friend Show with Sara Gon and Nicholas Lorimer discusses the cowardly decision to not fire the justice minister. They also talk about a

Fikile vs the KZN ANC

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Nicholas Lorimer and Hermann Pretorius discuss the battle between the KwaZulu-NatalANC and the ANC national leadership over who is to blame for the party’s performance

SACP: We are going it alone!

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Today’s Daily Friend Show with Chris Hattingh, Anlu Keeve, and Nicholas Lorimer discusses the announcement by the SACP to contest the local government elections independent

Water crisis threatens the financial system

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Today’s Daily Friend Show with Marius Roodt, Chris Patterson, and Nicholas Lorimer discuss a report by the Reserve Bank which claims that South Africa’s deteriorating

Stop squeezing the taxpayer

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Nicholas Lorimer and Hermann Pretorius discuss the IRR’s call for the state to recognize taxpayers as the engine of the economy. They also talk about

A new weapon to fight corruption?

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Makone Maja and Nicholas Lorimer discuss a new bill to establish an independent anti-corruption commission as a Chapter 9 institution to fight high level corruption.

Lawlessness abounds

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Nicholas Lorimer and Sara Gon discuss three stories of lawlessness: three senior politicians in one municipality charged with corruption, death threats for a senior Eastern