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Vaccine injury compensation fund: a counter-proposal

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That ‘whoosh’ you heard was the passing yesterday of the four-day comment period for the proposed Covid-19 No-Fault Compensation Scheme. I have a counter-proposal. With

Jay Naidoo’s great vaccine heist

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Jay Naidoo, like all good socialists, wants a ‘reset of our global humanity’. This time, he is spurred by the apparent injustice of ‘vaccine apartheid’.

Monidiot wants a planetary bailout

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Radical green/socialist activist George Monbiot has made a short video describing the Covid-19 pandemic as ‘a symptom of a global economic system that is destroying

Government claims a vaccine monopoly after all

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After furiously denying in a sworn affidavit that the government stood in the way of private sector procurement of Covid-19 vaccines, the medicine regulator has

Scaremongering about oil and gas drilling

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Ominous warnings written by environmental activists are designed to whip up public opposition to oil and gas production off the South African coast. We should

Populist ‘buy local’ schemes depress the economy

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President Cyril Ramaphosa is fully convinced of the economic merits of a ‘buy local’ programme. So was former US president Donald Trump, and an odium

Why do poverty and hunger persist?

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Poverty and hunger appear to be persistent problems, and many people hold capitalism in general, and neoliberalism in particular, responsible for perpetuating them. This is

Vaccines: missed opportunities for DA and private sector

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While the private sector timidly kowtows to the ANC, and the DA government in the Western Cape rolls over at the first sign of resistance,

Don’t cite Mercola at me, ever!

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The quickest way to convince me to dismiss someone as ignorant is when they support their arguments with links to Joseph Mercola’s popular alternative health

How climate alarmists fuel climate denial

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‘The end is nigh!’ is an age-old conceit of religious zealots and prophets of doom. Preaching apocalypse may comfort believers, but it isn’t very convincing