

Andrew Kenny
Andrew Kenny is a writer, an engineer and a classical liberal.
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The first 30 years of apartheid
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Apr 28, 2024
Apartheid essentially began in May 1948 when the National Party won the whites-only general election (on seats, not on total votes). It eventually set up

The Daily Maverick, and the future of the Press
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Apr 21, 2024
The most memorable newspaper headline I ever saw was in England 50 years ago to this month. It surprised me − shocked me, I suppose.

Bad genocide, good genocide, boring genocide
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Apr 14, 2024
“It should never be, and must never be, that atrocities, gross human rights violations and genocide should somehow carry less weight because of the race,

A free market in electricity – how would it work?
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Apr 7, 2024
Eskom’s continued failures and its recently announced price hikes are leading to more and more calls for a free market in electricity. How would it

Militant Islam, Marxism and the ANC
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Mar 31, 2024
How does the ANC feel about this? On Friday 22 March, gunmen broke into a big rock concert at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow

White Cuba and black Haiti: Why did they fail?
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Mar 24, 2024
Less than 80 kilometres separate Haiti from Cuba. In Haiti in 1804, a large group of black men staged the most successful slave uprising in

Why would the ANC allow itself to be kicked out in May?
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Mar 17, 2024
By far the greatest measure of democracy is the ability of the people to kick out the ruling party in a free election. In South

The ANC promotes inequality
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Mar 10, 2024
Thirty years of ANC rule have brought massive inequality to South Africa. The ANC inherited one type of inequality from the apartheid state and turned

Let’s end Ukraine war as soon as possible
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Mar 3, 2024
Russia is ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma’. This is one of the most famous of Churchill’s epigrams and in my mind

Should we eat insects?
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Feb 25, 2024
What’s wrong with eating insects, when we already eat prawns and lobsters, which belong to the same phylum? (A phylum is the biggest grouping of