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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Is South Africa outdoing the US on race relations?
After the guilty verdict last month, Joe Biden said of the murder of George Floyd that it revealed ‘the systemic racism that is a stain
Critical race theory cannot tolerate criticism
Twenty years ago the South African Institute of Race Relations published the results of a nation-wide survey of racial attitudes conducted for us by Lawrence
Good (but for some, unwelcome) news about racism in the United Kingdom
When others were toppling statues, “taking the knee” and jumping on the “Black Lives Matter” bandwagon, Boris Johnson set up a Commission on Race and
Is there really a 97% consensus about global warming and its consequences?
On its Climate Science Information Centre, extended in February to South Africa, Facebook states that “at least 97% of published scientists agree that global warming
The real problem is not Adam Habib, but the SOAS trustees
Weird place, the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). To investigate Adam Habib and all the ‘pain’ he caused, as well
How The New York Times downplayed Nazi crimes
This year’s Holocaust commemoration in South Africa – Yom HaShoah – will be held as a national Zoom meeting on 8th April. One of the
Liberation of a special type
Earlier this month Phumlani Majozi wrote on Politicsweb of the ‘heartbreaking’ figures on ‘family breakdown’ in South Africa. Citing Statistics South Africa, he reported that
Climate facts belie the climate scares and climate forecasts
Facebook recently extended its ‘climate science information centre’ to South Africa, inter alia informing us that ‘heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires’ have become ‘more frequent and
Are all those beaches shrinking and islands drowning?
Back in 1989 Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the United Nations (UN) Environment Programme, said that entire nations could be wiped
Fossil fuels help to feed the planet and also to make it greener
‘Climate change is already affecting agriculture and food security, which will make the challenge of ending hunger, achieving food security, improving nutrition, and promoting sustainable