Martin van Staden

The rise of populist authoritarianism on the right around the world unsurprisingly comes alongside an agenda to characterise liberalism’s achievements as either overstated or harmful,

As mothers continue to bury their children on the Cape Flats – perhaps the most violent place on the continent – the local Cape Town

One of the attempts at a “gotcha” against the statement that there are, give or take, 145 operational race laws on the books in South

The refrain is well-known by now: three decades into our democracy, Afrikaners have still not apologised for Apartheid. How is reconciliation possible under such circumstances?

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has taken up the fight against the misnamed Prevention of Illegal Evictions from and Illegal Occupation of Land Act (PIE), primarily

South Africa’s post-1994 democratisation enshrined protected property rights in the Constitution – including the crucial right to compensation upon expropriation – which heralded a break

The modern left gets much joy from construing anything to the right of Karl Marx as “fascist” or “Nazi,” but get upset when, inevitably, it

Few things have gripped the social imagination so firmly as the notion that “public = government = good” and “private = insular = bad.” This

On 12 July, the Mayor of uMngeni, the Democratic Alliance (DA)’s Chris Pappas, took to Facebook to argue that given how “public service leadership is

The following is an edited address I delivered at the Residential Investment & Development (Reside) Summit on 9 July. Early in May, Dean Macpherson, the