

Gangster’s paradise: state capture isn’t over
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Jul 8, 2025
Bombshell accusations levelled at police minister Senzo Mchunu demonstrate that one way or another, the state remains captured at the highest levels. On 16 August

Cops & Robbers?
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 7, 2025

National Dialogue: consensus not realistic
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Jul 7, 2025

Deport foreign prisoners, parliamentary committee agrees
- By Staff Writer
- . Jul 8, 2025

“Off the rails” Musk’s party plan “ridiculous”, say Trump
- By Staff Writer
- . Jul 8, 2025

Paris lifts century-long ban on swimming in River Seine
- By Staff Writer
- . Jul 8, 2025



How the ANC obstructs progress
- By Shawn Hagedorn
- . Jul 7, 2025
The ANC’s national dialogue initiative is a propaganda exercise which other political parties and civil society leaders should counter with workable solutions. Let’s explore why this is unlikely. Our ruling party has long been very effective at shaping our national

The tragic failure of independent Africa
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Jul 6, 2025
“Look what’s happening in the north! Look what happens when the blacks take over!” In South Africa, in the 1960s, this is what I heard over and over again from white people, when I tried to argue for giving black

The BEE 100: publish their names
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Jul 6, 2025
World attention is increasingly focused on South Africa. In the vast, rich country of extremes and diversity, human dramas are played off every day. It is the country of gold, diamonds, apartheid and Soweto. Despite this, a crucial element of

With the wind at his back … Steenhuisen and the “moonshot pact”
- By Hermann Pretorius
- . Jul 6, 2025
The following is the second extract from my book, Rule Breakers: How the 2024 election campaign changed South Africa forever, published by Protea. The first extract, Turning up the volume: Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma and democratic SA’s most consequential election, was

A non-racial future: The Baby Boks, Joburg and economic growth
- By Sindile Vabaza
- . Jul 5, 2025
I was recently pondering the Junior Springboks’ 73-17 thrashing of Australia and the fact that the starting line-up had seven black players, four coloured players and four white players. As a keen watcher of rugby at school level and having

Corruption can be captured
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 5, 2025
Society is confronted by a multitude of serious global crises. These include regional wars, revolutions, increasing anti-Semitism and Islamism, unprecedented fires, floods and famine, diminishing natural resources, nuclear proliferation and rising geo-political tensions, reminiscent of the worst days of the

The toxic lure of enclaves and anti-immigrationism
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Jul 4, 2025
Ethnic nationalists who wish to retreat to minority enclaves and oppose immigration are misinformed and rather delusional. “What will it take for minorities to stand together and create a safe enclave?” asked a commenter on a recent Daily Friend article

Not much to cry over
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Jul 4, 2025
On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang convened a press conference. She looked buggered, hungover and depressed. She didn’t break out into fluent Russian − as she was sometimes known to do − but instead read from