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Andrew Kenny
Andrew Kenny is a writer, an engineer and a classical liberal.
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The silly tragedy of Penny Sparrow
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Aug 4, 2019
Why did we attach such enormous importance to the commonplace racism of a commonplace woman who died last week? Sparrow’s life and death were marked
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UCT closes down ideas
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Jul 28, 2019
There was a time when you were allowed to be exposed to ideas you didn’t agree with. If you want to understand how much the
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The moon and South Africa
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Jul 21, 2019
Since 1994, our technological progress seems to have ground to a halt. Fifty years ago today – 21 July 1969 – the first human stepped
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The problem with foreigners
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Jul 14, 2019
My free market instincts favour free movement of all people everywhere, but I know this is impractical, and indeed destructive. So, I’d just advocate intelligent,
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The role of the ‘servant’ should be relegated to the bad old past
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Jul 7, 2019
Our economy needs to be freed so that everybody can get a proper, useful, productive job. Amid the disastrous unemployment in South Africa, it is
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The destructive folly of sanctions
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Jun 30, 2019
Economic sanctions continue their wreckage. They strengthened Castro’s tyranny in Cuba, prolonged apartheid and now threaten war in Iran. Sanctions are always destructive, usually producing
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It’s still about reading, writing and (a)rithmetic
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Jun 23, 2019
It doesn’t matter whether it’s the First Industrial Revolution or the Fourth, being properly taught the 3 Rs is crucial. From 1994 until now, the
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The Reserve Bank and the revolution
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Jun 16, 2019
If recent pronouncements herald the second phase of the governing party’s National Democratic Revolution (NDR), we can be sure the capitalists will leave – taking
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Lessons from D-Day
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Jun 9, 2019
The Allies made nonsense of the belief in the ‘ruthless efficiency’ of totalitarianism – capitalism smashed national socialism. Many countries now free, and many hundreds
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Our government is too big
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Jun 2, 2019
Small governments, interfering least in people’s lives, have delivered the most prosperity and the highest economic growth. It is instructive to look at the size