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Greta, there’s more to it than that

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According to Wikipedia, Greta Thunberg first heard about climate change when she was 8 years old, and couldn’t understand why so little was being done

Job Reservation à la 2019

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An application for a job has just been published. The position being advertised is for a researcher in marketing. The contract being offered is fixed

Freedom means letting people choose

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Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi should not hold a job in government if he regards the choice to speak Afrikaans and the creation of a

NHI won’t sort this out

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The bizarre case of the three doctors and the two broken chairs – and the unanswered questions about failings in South Africa’s public health system.

Employment Equity: Alice in Wonderland meets the Inquisition

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But it remains a heresy to challenge the racial basis of empowerment edicts that are failing to address poverty and inequality. Employment equity is to

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