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Making ourselves ‘kliye’

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The powerful have an awful record when it comes to getting the rest of us to follow rules about how to express ourselves. Which is

Land of the free – making sense of the USA

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On a visit to Boston some 15 years ago, I asked a taxi driver where he was from, surmising that the hint of foreignness in

Mmusi Maimane and the illusion of race

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It’s perhaps a measure of the cruelty of fate that, having lost the leadership of Democratic Alliance (DA), even when he has interesting and important

Going nowhere

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There’s always a risk of making too much of small details, of freighting them with larger meanings they perhaps can’t possibly carry. But the moment

We see you, too

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Diehard ideologues of the Left would almost certainly not have been overjoyed by the show of support outside the Bloemfontein magistrate’s court on Friday for

Lessons from an immovable monument

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President Cyril Ramaphosa chose Heritage Day on Thursday to recommend that ‘(monuments) glorifying our divisive past should be repositioned and relocated’ because ‘(building) a truly

Paralysis by corruption – the ANC’s dilemma

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Here’s a question for you. Who said the following? ‘The ANC is pained immensely by stories of corruption. We are highly conscious of the damage

SA commentary: a crisis of credibility

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Read anything about the supposed primacy of race in South African policy-making today and you will be urged to accept the truth of it on

We, the invisibles

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If anyone is holding their breath in expectation of swift action against senior African National Congress (ANC) politicians tainted by corruption, they should probably sooner

SA’s 1980s moment: when leaders must be made to follow

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Twice this past week, in publications that could never be accused of being opponents of the African National Congress (ANC), direct comparisons were made between