

Cops & Robbers?
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 7, 2025
Nicholas Lorimer and Hermann Pretorius discuss accusations by a senior cop that the minister of police is covering up political killings. They also talk about

National Dialogue: consensus not realistic
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Jul 7, 2025

How the ANC obstructs progress
- By Shawn Hagedorn
- . Jul 7, 2025

The tragic failure of independent Africa
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Jul 6, 2025

The BEE 100: publish their names
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Jul 6, 2025

Backup for licence machine in the (printing) works
- By Staff Writer
- . Jul 7, 2025

Musk announces new political party
- By Staff Writer
- . Jul 7, 2025

China can’t accept Ukraine win
- By Staff Writer
- . Jul 7, 2025



With the wind at his back … Steenhuisen and the “moonshot pact”
- By Hermann Pretorius
- . Jul 6, 2025
The following is the second extract from my book, Rule Breakers: How the 2024 election campaign changed South Africa forever, published by Protea. The first extract, Turning up the volume: Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma and democratic SA’s most consequential election, was

A non-racial future: The Baby Boks, Joburg and economic growth
- By Sindile Vabaza
- . Jul 5, 2025
I was recently pondering the Junior Springboks’ 73-17 thrashing of Australia and the fact that the starting line-up had seven black players, four coloured players and four white players. As a keen watcher of rugby at school level and having

Corruption can be captured
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 5, 2025
Society is confronted by a multitude of serious global crises. These include regional wars, revolutions, increasing anti-Semitism and Islamism, unprecedented fires, floods and famine, diminishing natural resources, nuclear proliferation and rising geo-political tensions, reminiscent of the worst days of the

The toxic lure of enclaves and anti-immigrationism
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Jul 4, 2025
Ethnic nationalists who wish to retreat to minority enclaves and oppose immigration are misinformed and rather delusional. “What will it take for minorities to stand together and create a safe enclave?” asked a commenter on a recent Daily Friend article

Not much to cry over
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Jul 4, 2025
On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang convened a press conference. She looked buggered, hungover and depressed. She didn’t break out into fluent Russian − as she was sometimes known to do − but instead read from

What really happened in 2024?
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 3, 2025
Nicholas Lorimer chats to Hermann Pretorius about his new book, Rule Breakers: How the 2024 Election Campaign Changed South Africa Forever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkW2PVC1AWM

Reject the “we only had two weeks to negotiate a GNU” meme
- By Martin van Staden
- . Jul 3, 2025
It is still early days in South Africa’s era of coalition politics, with the risk, and the scale, of (unintentional) misinformation and (deliberate) disinformation about “how everything now works” being quite high. The notion that after the 29 May 2024

ANC kicks SACP out of meeting
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 2, 2025
Terence Corrigan and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the growing split between the ANC and SACP, the growing tensions in the GNU and the problem of too many people awaiting trial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhnABbptMgs