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Black lives don’t matter to Mbeki

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Thabo Mbeki, former president of South Africa, wrote a revealing article in the Sunday Times last week under the heading, “We ignore the neglected, the

Race, class and food

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The working-classes prefer white bread to brown bread, have a lot of sugar in their tea and don’t like salads. I have seen this clearly

Is it better to starve than earn below the minimum wage?

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Is it better for a poor man to starve to death than to work for R4,000 a month, which is below the minimum wage in

Is South Africa friendly?

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Riots and demonstrations about immigrants, especially if the immigrants are of a different race and religion from the natives, are much in the news now,

Ignore black suffering, just attack the whites

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Our best schools, the few schools where black children receive a good education, are under assault in a racist campaign that has been termed “School

The Climate Change Act 2024: destructive, anti-science

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How much economic harm, environmental damage and human suffering will be caused by South Africa’s Climate Change Act, signed into law by President Ramaphosa on

Strange times in America but not the worst

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“America is now more divided than it’s ever been.” You hear this solemnly repeated by many commentators. It is complete nonsense. America was far more

The left despises the working classes

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I never know what the political terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ stand for and nobody has ever explained them to me, although they are used all

Why is nuclear power taking so long?

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As storms and gales and torrential rains sweep over us shivering in Cape Town, my thoughts have turned again to nuclear power. My thoughts have

Why the elites hate Trump

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Donald Trump would be fairly low down in my choices for President of the USA but I’d certainly vote for him if he were standing