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Making a better case for change

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Four or five times in the past fortnight, in very different conversations, I have heard middle-class parents, students and young graduates talk of a future

Why we need to talk about classical liberalism

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If you are unfamiliar with the online platform, New Frame, a good place to start in acquainting yourself with it might be its editorial on

SA soldiers on, but resilience is not success

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President Cyril Ramaphosa’s ‘Dear South African’ letter to the people this week had something important to say about why the country doesn’t fold – but

Don’t kid yourself: taking the knee is just too easy

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At a time when distant events are brought to us with such immediacy that we feel they are happening to us and that we must

The naked truth: when silence really is violence

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Much attention was lavished this week by, among others, the African National Congress (ANC), the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and the South African Human Rights

‘The people’: just what apartheid’s ideologues intended

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One of the neatest political ripostes of the dying days of apartheid was the graffito that appeared in central Cape Town just hours after police

Monumental questions: history, and what we’re doing about it

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When President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a virtual National Assembly exchange this week that ‘our people’ had been waiting ‘forever and a day’ for what

When the rage subsides

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When the global rage over the death in the United States of George Floyd subsides, as it will when life goes back to ‘normal’, it

The next crisis: SA’s choice

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From the word go, the Covid-19 crisis was always going to be about the future, if only because its biggest impact – the economic one

Lives and lucre: where the real vulnerability lies

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I wrote a column many years ago about growing up with the distinct impression that there was something unpleasant about money. Going on holiday as