John Kane-Berman
John Kane-Berman, a graduate of Wits and Oxford (where he was a Rhodes Scholar), is a former CEO of the IRR. Prior to that he spent ten years in journalism, where he was senior assistant editor of the Financial Mail and South African correspondent for numerous foreign papers. He is the author of several books on South African politics, and has also published his memoirs.
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Liberals always preferred a federal to a unitary state
Among those who occasionally comment on this column is one Jack Klok, who blames the country’s problems in part upon the ‘misplaced idealism’ of liberals.
Challenges facing the children of the ‘woke’
What kind of children are ‘woke’ parents breeding? Misfits? Guilt-ridden vegans? Rebels? The wokest of the woke will leave the sex column of their
Corruption is only about a third of the problem
Earlier this month the ‘stalwarts and veterans’ of the African National Congress (ANC) bestirred themselves to commend their party’s leadership for ‘grasping the nettle of
Time to salute our Non-Profit Organisations
When the French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States in 1831, one of the things that impressed him most was the ‘immense
Does the IMF understand the ANC?
So. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a $4.3 billion loan in ‘emergency assistance’ to help the South African government address this country’s ‘challenging
Runaway groupthink all over again
For the last 30 years the world has been in the grip of a powerful ideology known as man-made climate change. The last few months
Trump’s Mt Rushmore speech was right about the Left
According to The Economist, Donald Trump’s speech at Mount Rushmore to mark American Independence Day ‘sought to inflame a culture war centered on race’. The
A climate activist apologises for Project Fear
About time too. Michael Shellenberger, a self-confessed ‘climate activist’, last month issued a ‘formal apology’ for the ‘climate scare’ environmentalists had ‘created over the last
Even Helen Suzman needed a party
Mmusi Maimane, former leader of the official opposition, is enthusiastic about the recent ruling by the Constitutional Court that it is unconstitutional to stipulate that
Which side of history is the right one?
The Guardian, a one-time liberal British newspaper that is now very woke, green, and Brussophile, recently took the opportunity to throw a hissy fit against