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AGOA, EWC and ‘respecting diverse views’

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Last Saturday, I crafted a Press Release, headlined AGOA: why the silence on grave EWC risk?  It began: ‘The AGOA Forum entered its final day

Trevor Manuel vs the Bela Bill

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Former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel gave an interview with Clarence Ford on CapeTalk titled, “Our leaders are out of touch with the people”, which made

Delela is X made flesh

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When last did you watch a play in a theatre? I think I have only seen one since the plague, so finding myself in Cape

Procurement law sets SA up to fail

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Ultimately, every bid that goes straight for “value-for-money” with no other points is the most transformative way to spend R1 trillion, because it gets the

Race law and SA go together like curry and rice, but what about India?

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Mark Shuttleworth might have privately breached the atmosphere with Russian cosmonauts, but India has gone to the moon. The lunar landing is just one more

Ramaphosa Ultimate Zupta “Keeper”

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One of the most common phrases in South Africa’s courts is the imperative to “do purposive interpretation” of legal orders. In the case of former

When a white African is called the N-word

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Here is a case of bloody, curious entertainment, with a political twist. It’s a long story, so tuck in. It starts last week when South

Disturbing details behind ‘jobs bloodbath’ data

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The recent headline – ‘BREAKING NEWS: Jobs bloodbath in the first quarter as formal employment falls’ – was one among several arising from the release

Remembering the future: how to racially stream a family

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In 1985 Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, then leader of the PFP, a forerunner of the DA, chronicled his experience as a lawmaker in The Last

A deceptively avuncular affair: the last of the expropriation hearings …

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The final public hearings on the Expropriation (without compensation) Bill (EWC Bill) concluded on an average winter evening in central Cape Town. There were five