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Cadre deployment means there’s no ‘dustbin’ for incompetents

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In the ANC’s world, failures are recycled to perpetuate incompetence and corruption. It’s trite that a fundamental enabler of our huge levels of corruption, ineptitude

How will provincial health responsibilities match NHI?

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Sara Gon |13 August 2019 Compromised accountability, and administrative headaches, promise to be essential features of the controversial National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme. Among the

‘Myth’ of academic freedom celebrated at UCT

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The man who delivered the 2019 TB Davie Memorial Lecture to celebrate academic freedom at the University of Cape Town (UCT) regards the concept as

Groundhog Day comes to SA courtesy of Samwu

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The recklessness and impunity of the South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) will only change when it is successfully ordered to pay for damage arising

Faux equality v the inequality of biology

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Phoney numerical quotas for women do nothing for guaranteeing competence – and overlook the biological factor in how women view and pursue careers. The criteria

Freedom at UCT is teetering

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Everything that a world-class university is meant to do – above all, to encourage critical thinking, debate and free speech – is under attack. Over

Ramaphosa’s unreason

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If you think what the president says makes no sense, it probably doesn’t. Political articles currently have the same thread running through them irrespective of

Understanding the insidious resurgence of anti-Semitism 1

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This is the first of periodic articles that examine the resurgence of anti-Semitism globally, to an extent no one ever thought possible after the Holocaust.

Cyril Ramaphosa is a socialist

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President Cyril Ramaphosa has been tagged by many as a free marketeer and a pragmatist. He’s not, he’s a socialist. In the immediate aftermath of  President

Roll up! Roll up! The circus is in town!

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Many astute commentators will analyse the content of the State of the Nation Address (SONA) in the next few days. The event, however, reflects how