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Blacks cannot suffer unless whites make them suffer

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Last week saw a spectacular example of that most profound racism, the belief that black suffering means nothing unless whites cause it. Whites are all

Eight centuries of bungling tragedy

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The tragedy of Ireland, suddenly in the news last week, illustrates two important political principles. The first is that blunder can be worse than malice.

Who ruined our electricity supply?

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Who ruined South Africa’s electricity supply, which was once the best in the world? Was it Eskom? The ANC? Other malign influences? Other idiocies? Actually

A strange, white, gigantic phenomenon

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Something strange has happened in my favourite sport, something unprecedented in its long history. Sport and race are of great interest, but it is forbidden

Why can’t the ANC wreck the Gautrain?  

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Like many fellow Capetonians, I find much wrong with Johannesburg. The traffic lights don’t work; the people put ice in their red wine; electricity fails

Three reasons for killing lots of innocent people

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Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine has killed thousands of innocent people, including women and children. Why were they killed? Why have large numbers of innocent

Do the greens want the petrol price to go up or down?

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Do you want the price of petrol to go up or down? This is the question I must ask green politicians and newspaper editors, who

A sad day for my only famous friend, Laura Wolvaardt

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I woke up on Thursday morning to a great disappointment. The only famous person I know personally had taken South Africa to the edge of

The DA wants to push up my electricity bills

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I am fortunate to live in Cape Town under the DA. I am happy with most things the DA does in this city but now

Marxists died to defend white privilege

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One hundred years ago, Marxists died on a South African gallows defending white privilege. They sang The Red Flag as the trapdoors opened. Their revolutionary