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The Daily Maverick, and the future of the Press

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The most memorable newspaper headline I ever saw was in England 50 years ago to this month. It surprised me − shocked me, I suppose.

Bad genocide, good genocide, boring genocide

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“It should never be, and must never be, that atrocities, gross human rights violations and genocide should somehow carry less weight because of the race,

A free market in electricity – how would it work?

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Eskom’s continued failures and its recently announced price hikes are leading to more and more calls for a free market in electricity. How would it

Militant Islam, Marxism and the ANC

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How does the ANC feel about this? On Friday 22 March, gunmen broke into a big rock concert at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow

White Cuba and black Haiti: Why did they fail?

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Less than 80 kilometres separate Haiti from Cuba. In Haiti in 1804, a large group of black men staged the most successful slave uprising in

Why would the ANC allow itself to be kicked out in May?

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By far the greatest measure of democracy is the ability of the people to kick out the ruling party in a free election. In South

The ANC promotes inequality

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Thirty years of ANC rule have brought massive inequality to South Africa. The ANC inherited one type of inequality from the apartheid state and turned

Let’s end Ukraine war as soon as possible

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Russia is ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma’. This is one of the most famous of Churchill’s epigrams and in my mind

Should we eat insects?

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What’s wrong with eating insects, when we already eat prawns and lobsters, which belong to the same phylum? (A phylum is the biggest grouping of

A frightening blow to science and free speech

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Last week in Washington DC, USA, a court dealt a terrifying blow against science and free speech. A man was on trial, and found guilty,