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How politicking in cricket leads to pencil tests

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It’s not often that the name of the U/19 Proteas captain is in the headlines. At the end of last year this was the case,

Lessons from Georgia

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In life, things are rarely simple. It is not often that any issue or situation can be seen in simple black-or-white or either-or terms, where

SA should look to India, not Russia or China

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South Africa seems to be gradually drifting out of the Western orbit. Its, at least implicit, support for Russia in its current attack on Ukraine

DA should dismiss coalition with ANC

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The possibility of the DA and the ANC forming a ‘grand’ coalition after next year’s election is once again being spoken about by a number

ANC beholden to magical thinking

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When it first appeared in 2006, Rhonda Byrne’s The Secret swept the publishing world. It has since gone on to sell some 30 million copies,

A tale of two elections

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Elections were recently held in two countries which have some similarities to South Africa – Turkey and Thailand. And South Africans would do well to

Where are South Africa’s insurgent parties?

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Dutch politics were shaken last month when a party, barely four years old, emerged as the single biggest in the country’s provincial elections. The BoerBurgerBeweging

How the ANC can get minority voters back

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The news that the ANC is looking to woo white and other minority voters back as supporters was met with something approaching universal derision. Even

SA has the ingredients for lift-off – but will we get into orbit?

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South Africans, on the whole, are at the end of their tether. This ranges from the wealthy suburbanite who is looking into emigration options to

ANC collapse could happen sooner than we think

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The ANC stands astride South Africa’s politics like a colossus. To be sure, it’s not the force it was in the early parts of this