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Sara Gon
Rants professionally to rail against the illiberalism of everything. Broke out of 17 years in law to pursue a classical music passion by managing the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra and more. Working with composer Karl Jenkins was a treat. Used to camping in the middle of nowhere. Have 2 sons who have inherited a fair amount of "rant-ability" themselves.
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NHI won’t sort this out
- By Sara Gon
- . Sep 10, 2019
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.
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Employment Equity: Alice in Wonderland meets the Inquisition
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Sep 3, 2019
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
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Cadre deployment means there’s no ‘dustbin’ for incompetents
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Aug 20, 2019
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
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How will provincial health responsibilities match NHI?
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Aug 13, 2019
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
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‘Myth’ of academic freedom celebrated at UCT
- By Sara Gon
- . Aug 10, 2019
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
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Groundhog Day comes to SA courtesy of Samwu
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Aug 6, 2019
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
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Faux equality v the inequality of biology
- By Sara Gon
- . Jul 27, 2019
Phoney numerical quotas for women do nothing for guaranteeing competence – and overlook the biological factor in how women view and pursue careers. The criteria
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Freedom at UCT is teetering
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Jul 23, 2019
Everything that a world-class university is meant to do – above all, to encourage critical thinking, debate and free speech – is under attack. Over
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Ramaphosa’s unreason
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Jul 16, 2019
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
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Understanding the insidious resurgence of anti-Semitism 1
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Jul 2, 2019
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.