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Is the race-obsessed middle class trying to undermine the middle ground?

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Apart from active politicians and the Human Rights Commission, Mamphela Ramphele is the most prominent person to have weighed in on ‘whiteness’ in recent months.

People’s war, fake news, and the dogs that failed to bark

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The spread of fake news by the media is only half the story. The other half is what they did not print, and why they

A growth cabinet this one just ain’t

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Cyril Ramaphosa claims a mandate for growth, but he has betrayed it by appointing ministers unlikely to implement that mandate. Few institutions have been as

White privilege is at best only half the story

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Scapegoating whites only exonerates the ANC, legitimates policies that perpetuate poverty and exclusion, and creates the impression that the path to success is simply to

Ramaphosa’s chance and Maimane’s crossroads (and snotklap)

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The African National Congress (ANC) has no means of knowing whether the man who ran its recent election campaign, Fikile Mbalula, was wrong in claiming

Still no answers from the right-wing critics

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Apart from ducking the question of how to deal with the practicalities of “radical partition”, the question of how to implement political ideas most of

Critics who blame liberals never had any real answers of their own

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Some of the comments to our articles blame liberals for some of the disasters that the African National Congress (ANC), and its communist and trade

The policy balance sheet on Ramaphosa’s watch

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The government measures that should encourage investment and growth are outweighed by measures likely to do the opposite. Many people who would not normally vote

Ninety years old and still going strong

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The Institute of Race Relations has fought for the principles of classical liberalism for nearly a century. The tenets of real liberalism, which will best

Books first and then people or vice versa?

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In South Africa the comrades were burning people before they got around to books.Tony Yengeni called for it in a tweet only last week. A