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On pain, desperation and chiropractors

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Alternative health peddlers get rich exploiting desperate sufferers of intractable ailments or pain, often with disastrous consequences. There are few things more likely to motivate

Trevor Noah: was integration a bad idea?

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South African expatriate comedian Trevor Noah set the internet on fire in a recent podcast when he questioned whether “integration was the right move”. “That

Budget 2025: SA cannot afford business as usual

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Budget 2025 is the right hill to die on, for the Democratic Alliance. It cannot tolerate business as usual. What, exactly, is the point of

JD Vance’s preposterous Munich speech

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Last month, JD Vance berated European leaders in Munich over “the threat from within”. His speech was nuts. At the Munich Security Conference held in

Trump doesn’t want to play “leader of the free world” anymore

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US President Donald Trump’s Oval Office outburst at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is symbolic of a world order changing before our very eyes. Earlier in

Trump overturns the chess board

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US President Donald Trump sure has a flair for the dramatic. After his press conference with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, he might even get what

Making measles great again

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RFK Jr.’s response to a major measles outbreak that caused the first deaths in the US in nearly a decade was to downplay it as

Cape Town mayor moots tax on short-term rentals

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Instead of welcoming digital nomads with open arms, Cape Town wants to make itself a less attractive destination. “Digital nomads row – Cape Town mayor

Budget 2025: Who drives policy in the GNU?

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This week’s non-budget reveals a lot about the policy direction of the GNU, and the ANC’s position in the driving seat. There we were on

This is not Apartheid 2.0

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One prominent placard at last Saturday’s whites-only pro-Trump demonstration in Pretoria said “STOP Apartheid 2.0”. That needs an answer. Earlier in the week, I wrote