Simon Lincoln Reader
Simon Lincoln Reader was born in Johannesburg. He spent a decade living in London, where he worked in financial services, eventually co-founding investment marketplace Lofotr Investors. He writes a Friday column for The Daily Friend, podcasts twice week and is a trustee of the Kay Mason Foundation, a charity awarding bursaries to young people in Cape Town.
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Unlike the UK, the US still has faith in South Africa
I wasn’t expecting any warmth toward South Africa before I arrived at a conference held in my new hometown in Texas, and I couldn’t have
For today’s elite, even war is oblivious cosplay
In March 2021, the broadcaster Sky announced that it was offering a placement programme exclusively for minority candidates across its news division. Bosses there felt
Afrikaans coloured is coming to Westminster soon
When the ANC’s Minister for Water and Sanitation Pemmy Majodina called a man with a crutch ‘jou ma se p***’ at an event some weeks
The most endearing feature of the high-trust society is the honesty box
In many English villages, eggs or vegetables are left outside homes on tables. You take half a dozen of the former, then you slip cash into a box, ordinarily a few pounds. Nobody is guarding the table, nobody is monitoring the box. At the end of the day the person selling is almost guaranteed to reconcile to the penny.
Kneeling before narcissists
It’s been a good few weeks for pro-Palestine supporters, starting with a murder in New York.
So woke was a scam. Who knew?
I liked how US congresswoman and saucy LatinX Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) spoke about ‘woke’ recently on American television. Talking about yet another mentally deranged Democratic Socialists and a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly called Francesca Hong, AOC quoted a New York councilman who had remarked to her that ‘woke 1 was crazy’.
The Yookay discovers rape is not ok
There was a bizarre story three years ago about a man who had a nasty accident.
When the ANC goes, Labour does too
In the secret weekly competition between the ANC and the UK Labour Party, in which each tries to outshit the other, there was something of a photo-finish at 10pm last Friday.
A white UCT sociology graduate stands by Naledi Pandor’s remarks on AfriForum
“today I, who is female (she/her) white and privilege, am aim attack on Afriforum and university institution ‘akademia’. As former sociological student of esteemed university of cape town with degree,as former private school learning pupil in same city, as present working in HR I make solidarity with naledi pandor, high rated socially aware former education secretary for state. I am also admire mrs. Pandor’s activism for palestine, number 2 issue for all of our lives. Number 1 issue remain fatal threat of far right podcasting.
The greatest political writer
‘We thought we liked this new way we were, these new deregulated humans, fearful of nothing. But I think we have deluded ourselves. We have filled our boots, and deluded ourselves’.