

Ramaphosa triples down on race thought
- By Daily Friend
- . May 28, 2025
Marius Roodt and Nicholas Lorimer discuss answers on race categorization and BEE that President Ramaphosa gave in parliament to questions from MPs.

Ramaphosa and Trump: The consequences
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . May 28, 2025

Trump sacrifices advanced economy to defeat wokism
- By Ivo Vegter
- . May 28, 2025

The Joburg Crisis: Is the mayor hiding the truth?
- By Daily Friend
- . May 27, 2025

Spain cracks down on Airbnb
- By Staff Writer
- . May 28, 2025

Lessons for SA from Milei’s Argentina – new IRR report
- By Staff Writer
- . May 28, 2025

Kremlin calls Trump “emotional”
- By Staff Writer
- . May 28, 2025



Crime stats: time to bring safety home
- By Paul Maritz
- . May 27, 2025
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
- By Daily Friend
- . May 26, 2025
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

Starlink
- By David Doubell
- . May 26, 2025

Choose freedom: it’s the best chance we have
- By Terence Corrigan
- . May 26, 2025
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
- By Shawn Hagedorn
- . May 26, 2025
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
- By Andrew Kenny
- . May 25, 2025
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
- By Hermann Pretorius
- . May 25, 2025
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
- By Paul Hoffman
- . May 24, 2025
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