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A disturbance in the force

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Almost a month ago IRR CEO John Endres asked, “do you detect a shift in the force?” It was a funny way to ask a

UrineGate I

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In the fortnight since Theuns du Toit urinated on the laptop and other belongings of Babalo Ndwanyana in Huis Marais Residence at Stellenbosch University (SU)

Permanent Lockdown

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Circa May 5 the lockdown measures currently in place will no longer apply under the Disaster Management Act, which is why Joe Phaahla, the Minister

Race lessons from Rwanda

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A scientific study initiated at the Institute of Advanced Learning, Princeton, shows that racism has been undone in Rwanda much more profoundly than is often

3 Russia-West “unmentionables”

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Most South African pundits find the Russian-Ukrainian war very simple and easy to explain in moral terms, but I do not, because I favour Classical

Inside Look at the Liberty Lobby

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Looking back over the last four years, from the moment in December 2017 when the ANC adopted a motion to change the Constitution to corrupt

Non-racialism, the choice of a supermajority of South Africans

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Over the festive season, the Daily Friend has been rerunning some most-read, or especially significant, articles from 2021. The following piece was published on 27 June. Earlier

What does the end of the Covid-19 pandemic look like?

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What does the end of the pandemic look like? One answer is provided by the UK, whose smoothed average Covid-19 deaths, and cases, are laid

Death in Dundee: key evidence that must be considered

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On 28 September seventeen-year-old Qiniso Dlamini was fatally shot in the gut during a scuffle with farmer Garth Simpson. This is the story about how

Dlamini-Zuma caught in truth-trap at the ConCourt

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Cooperative governance minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma created a constitutional crisis by shutting the voters’ roll before the promised registration weekend. Why did she disenfranchise people? She