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Little evidence that Cyril is a Ramareformer

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Ever since Cyril Ramaphosa became president in 2018, after winning a bitter leadership contest with Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, we have been told he is a reformer.

Lockdown reveals that we are governed by petty tyrants

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South Africa is now in its fourth week of lockdown, with an increasing number of commentators warning of an economic catastrophe unless something is done

Taking the long view

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The world is in crisis and, for many people, it feels unprecedented. For those of my age who are too young to really remember the

BEE isn’t working – time for a rethink

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South Africa is on the brink of an economic crisis. Some would say the country even faces an existential threat, as rumblings about Western Cape

Cricket, race, and obsessions

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If anyone thought 2020 would be the year when South Africans stopped being obsessed about race, they were wrong. The year began with more arguments

South Africa’s electoral system – time for a change

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Weeks before the May 2019 election, a little-known organisation, the New Nation Movement (NNM), brought a case in the Western Cape High Court in support

Eroding property rights risks destroying the dream of ‘94

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The government seems hell-bent on implementing a policy of expropriation without compensation (EWC) in South Africa, despite the very clear evidence that such a policy

Obsessive racial bean-counting benefits nobody

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A bizarre piece of news came out of the Fairest Cape recently. It was reported that the Cape Cobras, the Cape Town-based franchise cricket side,

Liberalism – an ideology for all

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Despite what some ‘progressives’ think, the broad liberal message of free markets, non-racialism, and rule of law has resonance far beyond any tea-sipping group of

SABC’s failures a microcosm of SA

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It’s time the government began correcting its own failures instead of expecting the rest of us to carry the cost. By the time you read