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Keystone Kops hit the streets of Gauteng

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Panyaza Lesufi, the Premier of Gauteng, has taken a leaf out of Western Cape Premier Alan Winde’s book with his provincial Crime Prevention Wardens. With

The dark intentions of industries that call for regulation

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Meta/Facebook wants new internet regulation, and has been calling for it for years. A South African body art industry association claims to want to be

The age of resource abundance

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A core belief of those who believe human activity on Earth is unsustainable is that we are running out, or soon will run out, of

If you need electricity, don’t decommission power stations

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A special cabinet meeting on Wednesday discussed slowing down the decommissioning of old coal-fired power stations. It’s one of the smarter ideas we’ve seen in

Infamous ‘peer-reviewed’ antivax paper retracted

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In January, Covid-19 vaccine opponents got all worked up about a paper that appeared to show 278 000 vaccine-related deaths in the US. Of course, the

New employment equity law imposes quotas in all but name

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President Ramaphosa signed the Employment Equity Amendment Bill into law this week. It is probably unconstitutional, and will leave the country worse off, not better.

Population bomb fizzles out

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Just over fifty years ago, the Club of Rome published its influential Limits to Growth book. It has now released a study which found the

The rise of theonomic authoritarianism on the right

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In Texas, a new bill proposes to place the Ten Commandments in every classroom in the state. Another would allow school districts to employ chaplains

How they made Eskom corruption vanish

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First, new electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa announced that corruption is not at the heart of Eskom’s troubles. Then, finance minister Enoch Godongwana exempted Eskom from

Should SA arrest Putin? Not so fast.

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South Africa has a strained relationship with the International Criminal Court. Although nominally a member, it is rightly sceptical of the institution. On 17 March