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Open letter to President Macron: test of conservation policy is not whether it makes Europeans feel better about wildlife
The real test of conservation is not whether a policy makes Europeans feel better about wildlife. The test is whether it leaves more wildlife, more habitat and stronger incentives to conserve them for the generations that follow. We respectfully submit that France’s present policy fails that test.
Dada Morero makes new friends in Joburg
In today’s live show, Nicholas Lorimer and Ofentse Donald Davhie discuss the selection of council candidates, the importance of education in politicians, coalitions and Dolly
Can fixing local government fix our economy? | Terence Corrigan
Terence Corrigan and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the importance of fixing local government if we want to end our unemployment crisis and get South Africa working.
ANC can’t even select its mayoral candidates
Nicholas Lorimer and Hermann Pretorius discuss the ANC’s failure to launch its candidates, its manifesto launch, and the JRA’s asphalt plant not operating. Follow The
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
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
ActionSA’s Tshwane troubles
Nicholas Lorimer and Dr John Endres discuss the fracturing coalition in Tshwane, the troubles of Johannesburg and its potentially sunny future, and how the UK
The incredible fakeness of social media
In today’s TDF live show, Nicholas Lorimer and Hermann Pretorius chat about the problem, and scale, of fake content on social media and how society
The SANDF encroachment crisis: military bases and the land question
Fifteen months is a long time in politics. It is long enough for a civilian to die after gaining access to unexploded ordnance at an unfenced military training area. It is long enough for court orders to remain only partially implemented because alternative accommodation was never provided. It is long enough for hundreds of millions of rand in proposed perimeter fencing to remain unfunded aspirations. And it is long enough for an interdepartmental working group that Parliament instructed the Executive to establish to remain nothing more than a phrase repeated in a PowerPoint presentation.
SA needs a capitalist revolution
About the lack of growth in our economy (raised by Jonathan Katzenellenbogen’s piece yesterday, Do we truly want to grow?), this is a political problem that can only have a political solution.