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Fantasy of the Nation Address more accurately reflects our unreality

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Listening to the parliamentary debate following last week’s SONA speech by the President it occurred to me that maybe it should be renamed FONA (Fantasy

Marvel comics meets SONA

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SONA II proves that the more promises of change there are, the more things are likely to stay the same. You know how it is….you

Geneva junket all in a day’s not half decent work

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But if ‘decent work’ really is what the International Labour Organisation’s conference is all about, rather than slumming it in Switzerland, why not hold it

Does Ace in the pack trump the king?

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We are often told Cyril Ramaphosa is playing the ‘long game’, but it would be useful to know how long it is, exactly, and whether

Memo to Cabinet

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If you really want economic growth you’ll have to ignore those who regard financial success as evidence of class exploitation. In September of 2002, the

No easy task ahead for Ramaphosa

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Much of the problem is that most of our politicians are committed communists and haven’t a clue about free market economies. I thought President Ramaphosa’s

Travel through a rubbish tip

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A trip through spectacular vistas became a trip through an endless rubbish dump. I’ve been slacking these past two weeks. Truth is, I was in

Justice was neither done nor seen to be done

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It’s now eleven years since I was “sacked” from the Sunday Times for writing a “racist” column which the editor chose to publish. The editor

Pre-election lunacy masquerading as manifesto expansion

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One of the concomitant pleasures that come with a looming general election is the opportunity to listen to representatives of parties contesting the election attempt

People are not ‘vermin’, Phillip

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Are whites going to be punished for imagined sins? Phillip Dexter says they are. I drove home last week to the sight of a plume