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No white engineers – unless they are Cuban

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White South African engineers are held in high regard all around the world – except in South Africa, where the ANC has waged a successful

The canned lion and the octopus teacher

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Two killers prowl the trees of my garden near Fish Hoek in Cape Town, two predatory animals hunting for prey, without which they would starve.

27 years later, it could have been worse

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“What would South Africa be like if the ANC ruled it for 27 years?” If this question had been asked in 1986, most whites (and

Find him guilty, or we riot

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Decent, law-abiding, poor black people in America will suffer because of the manner in which the guilty verdict for white policeman Derek Chauvin was reached

Climate, capitalism, science and religion

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The puzzle over climate change is not scientific but political – or religious or ideological. Science shows clearly that mankind is not changing the climate

The strange psychology of anti-racism

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How do you know what is racism and what is not? Anti-racist orthodoxy is bewildering and constantly changing, so that yesterday’s words attacking racism might

In desperation, use powerships

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South Africa is so desperate for reliable electricity that last year the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy invited bids from power companies worldwide to

Free education for all

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“Free Education for All!” cry the would-be students. Where do they want the money to come from? From the working class masses who will never

The ordeals of two black women

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Oprah Winfrey, a US TV personality, was interviewing a black woman who had suffered an ordeal. She asked, “What were your feelings as you were

A racist white, or a corrupt black?

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A white man, Andre de Ruyter, was appointed CEO of Eskom in January 2020. And guess what? He has been accused of ‘racism’ by a