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Listening, learning and a lost opportunity

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It is doubtful that Adam Habib has done himself any favours by departing from his spirited defence of intellectual dispassion at the start of the

A contemptible insult

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In the very week in which the Institute of Race Relations delivered a memorandum to the Presidency warning the government about the costs of abusing

Longing for a country that is better than it has ever been

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I have written before about interviewing Rashaad Fataar under a solitary avocado tree in a swathe of scrubby grass on the periphery of central Cape

Land reform: there is a better way

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There is little point in handing out land and ending up with assets that are dying in the hands of the poor.  Well, detractors might

Remembering the future: state vs people

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‘Liberation’-era South Africa has reached its ‘apartheid’ moment in what is turning out to be something of a climax in the government’s now three-year drive

The Tyefu incident: a symbol of national error

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In the satellite image, Tyefu police station looks as remote and undistinguished as an abandoned farmstead, a modest block and a few outbuildings beside a

Reason in unreasonable times

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I don’t suppose many readers could imagine anything written about linguistics being at once amusing and intelligibly insightful, but a brief passage from some of

A costly incuriosity

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I once spent the better part of a day keeping a beady eye on the comings and goings at Mark Thatcher’s home in Constantia, such

Liberalism and religion: a reply to Ernst Roets

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Ernst Roets, AfriForum’s Head of Policy and Action, took to Twitter late last week to draw his followers’ attention to a vigorous debate on the

The (good) Book of Doubt

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‘E rile mo tshimologong Modimo wa tlhola legodimo le lefatshe.’ These are the opening words of a book given to me and my wife, Sharon,