Ivo Vegter

The level of surprise at the insidious, state-capture-enabling nature of the ANC’s cadre deployment policy, surprises me. It was entirely predictable, 25 years ago. In

Amnesty International has produced a travesty of a report, rehashing old antisemitic tropes and falsely denouncing Israel as an apartheid state. It says a lot

It is awkward to defend a politician who is likely corrupt as all get-out, and has been branded a liar by Judge Zondo, but when

Ryland Fisher recently raised an interesting question: what do we do with ‘the art created by monstrous men (and women)? It isn’t an easy question

Xenophobic populism is both very, very dangerous, and ideologically misguided. It should be taboo territory for any respectable politician. Earlier this week, I started re-watching

Much bad information is free. Much good information costs money. Nathan J. Robinson, editor-in-chief of the left-wing magazine, Current Affairs, proposes solving this problem by

The first instalment of the report of the Zondo Commission into State Capture fingered a number of high-profile politicians, but also a few major private

Veterinary experts have drawn attention to the deterioration of yet another critical state-owned enterprise, Onderstepoort Biological Products. The dominant source of animal vaccines in South

Almost two years on, the pandemic circumstances have changed fundamentally. There were no good reasons for many of the harsh lockdown rules in the first

Although I wrote last week that the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was ‘a remarkable soul, overflowing with decency and humanity’, there’s a dark side