Crime stats: time to bring safety home

Every hour in South Africa, nearly three people are murdered. Every day, over 500 people are assaulted with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm. On average, 139 rapes occur daily. These aren’t abstract figures, but reflect the lived experiences of

Fight against BEE: the current balance of forces

Nicholas Lorimer and Hermann Pretorius discuss an excellent column attacking BEE by Professor William Gumede. They also discuss a court challenge in defence of BEE and South Africa’s latest crime statistics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUdOei6vmJw

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Choose freedom: it’s the best chance we have

The following is an edited version of speaking notes prepared for Debates and Da Beats in Brixton on 17 May. The event was supported by the Campaign for Free Expression. I began by saying: “It’s a pleasure to be here.

The basics of fixing SA’s economy

Exceptional problem solvers, like Musk, or Einstein, who frame issues by focusing on first principles, would fix our economy by focusing on jobs, not GDP or investment flows. Higher growth must come from increasing either domestic consumption or exports. For

Genocide and non-genocide

There is a real genocide happening in the world right now and it is largely ignored. There are also two bogus genocides getting massive attention. The real genocide is in Sudan where hundreds of thousands of poor black Africans are

Big Agri’s quiet betrayal of SA’s farmers

Two weeks ago at NAMPO, Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson assured the audience that the new Expropriation Act was no cause for alarm. I shared the panel with him, Jaco Kleynhans of Solidariteit, as well as representatives of

NACAC caught between rock of constitutionalism and hard place of SA politics

The rock of constitutionalism is the foundation of the new or post-liberation order in SA. The Constitution and the rule of law are regarded as supreme, and these basic parameters are recorded in Section 1 of Chapter One of the