

Andrew Kenny
Andrew Kenny is a writer, an engineer and a classical liberal.
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The most subversive figure in history?
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Dec 22, 2024
This is my last column of the year, and since I have nothing interesting to say about the two usual topics at year’s end –

You voted for expensive electricity. So pay up
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Dec 15, 2024
In the undemocratic era of apartheid, Eskom produced the world’s cheapest electricity, providing plentiful, reliable electricity for households, commerce and industry, and giving us many

Confused racial psychology governs ANC attitudes to white teachers
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Dec 8, 2024
Most South African schools are doing very badly, producing some of the worst educational outcomes on Earth. But some, a select few, are doing very

If you love me, kill me
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Dec 1, 2024
If you love me, kill me. Today in South Africa, the greatest act of love, the greatest act of mercy, by one loved one for

Words and deeds of politicians, and why people vote for them
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Nov 24, 2024
Floyd Shivambu, who had been caught doing 182 km/hr in his Range Rover and who has received millions of rand from the VBS bank, which

Simple scientific fallacies about climate change
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Nov 17, 2024
I was not going to bother to comment on the usual wretched nonsense of the latest UN climate change conference, COP29, taking place in Azerbaijan

Trump is deceptively sane and sensible
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Nov 10, 2024
When the results of the American election came rolling in, I had two reactions, one of which puzzled me for a while. My first reaction

America’s dismal choice
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Nov 3, 2024
If I were an American, on the cusp of the election, I’d be cursing the fact that the Republican Party didn’t choose as its candidate

Race, sex and women’s sport
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Oct 27, 2024
Here is a video of South Africa’s most famous active cricketer, taken eight years ago: Fall In Love Again – Laura Wolvaardt On Sunday I

Well-meaning unemployment and starvation
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Oct 20, 2024
According to everyone who knew him, Tito Mboweni, who died this month, was a lovely man. He was cheerful, friendly, humble and thoroughly decent. A