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The best and worst of Trump: Climate and trade

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In just under two months, President Trump has helped to save the world from one destructive folly but threatened it with another. He seems incoherent

Ramaphosa, not AfriForum, should be charged with treason

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The Hawks are investigating dockets of high treason against AfriForum and Solidarity. This is because of their high-level meetings in Washington with Trump’s administration. They

I am partly neanderthal and proud of it

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There is an interesting and silly racial row over the origins of white people. You can tell it’s silly because the South African Human Rights

Nuclear confusion with Iran, South Africa, and Trump

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Nuclear power, nuclear weapons, South Africa, and Iran are the subject of yet another unfortunate and potentially damaging row between the USA and South Africa.

What are the lessons of Rhodesia?

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The 2025 Expropriation Act has drawn attention to the question of land reform and in particular white ownership of farms in South Africa. This is

Trump boosts the ANC’s disastrous Expropriation Act

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“No, be afraid. Be very afraid.” These famous words come from the 1986 sci-fi film, The Fly. A crazy scientist invents a machine that can

The most dangerous man in the world

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Thirteen South Africans were killed last month by the most dangerous man in the world. Paul Kagame, the racist dictator of the super-apartheid state, Rwanda,

Trump ends climate madness – in freezing cold

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President Trump’s inaugural speech on Monday was not all good, but most of it was. So were most but not all of his flurry of

Matric, maths and the South African economy – paradoxes abound in the education system

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In one newspaper, I read that our universities in 2025 are overwhelmed with applications for student places: the University of Johannesburg has 33 applicants for

The ANC wins, South Africa loses

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After 30 years of ANC rule, a quarter of our children are so malnourished they are susceptible to permanent brain damage, unemployment is 42%, economic