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Ending loadshedding: green or greener?

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The DA is punting wind and solar. Ramokgopa is punting coal. Who is right? And where is nuclear? The electricity minister, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, upon whose

Racist upbringing is child abuse

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A 15-year-old boy uttered a racial slur. The mob, led by the EFF, took umbrage and went after him. Imagine my surprise to wake up

NHI’s Crisp commands: ‘pervasive distrust has to stop’

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Why on earth would South Africans reflexively distrust the idea of nationalising and centralising healthcare? The Financial Mail recently reported (paywalled article) that cardiologists at

Nick Cave has issues with ChatGPT

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Generative artificial intelligence is a ‘boundless machine of artistic demoralisation’, says singer Nick Cave. Australian singer, writer and actor Nick Cave really doesn’t like generative

Argentinians see the light

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It took a second round of voting, but the libertarian Javier Milei has defeated his Peronist rival to become president of Argentina. A month ago,

Intelligent people lean towards classical liberalism

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It is widely supposed that intelligent, university-educated people lean left. But that is only half-right, and consequentially, half-wrong. The stereotypical intelligent, wealthy graduate is a

SA’s civil servants eat like kings

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Talk of tax morality is cheap when public servants are overpaid and underperforming, as the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement makes clear. Finance minister Enoch Godongwana’s

Short sellers: in praise of financial vultures

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South Korea this week re-imposed a prohibition on short-selling stocks. Should it have done so? And should South Africa follow suit? Last Sunday, 5 November

Race card is all the ANC has left

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Fikile Mbalula, unable to answer criticism of the ANC, is reduced to denouncing its critics as racists and apartheid apologists. Fani Titi, the chief executive

What the world would look like if animals had legal rights

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Contrary to a vegan professor’s utopian description, a world in which animals had legal rights would not be viable. I must apologise to Steve Cooke,