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New Year Reflections

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After a pleasant family Christmas consisting of braai meat, scotch and chess by the braai flame, I decided to take a moment to reflect around

The GNU (DA) must fight for industrial and labour reform 

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While recent news of South Africa receiving positive outlooks from ratings agencies S&P Global and Fitch is quite encouraging, the real test for the GNU

SA prosperity: embracing the informal sector

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The Government of National Unity (GNU) has been a welcome development in this country in terms of providing a certain “vibe check” about us, as

Why SA rugby should be fully privatised 

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With the French Top 14 Rugby League inking a deal earlier this year with broadcaster Canal Plus worth around an average of 139.4 million Euros

Lawlessness, crime, shrinking wealth and the future of South Africa

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This past weekend I was at a rather large family thanksgiving event sitting ‘ebuhlanti’ (in a kraal), chatting away with a gentleman who was showing

What black American migratory patterns can tell us about a possible Joburg future

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I recently read a piece by the Brookings Institution titled A ‘New Great Migration’ is bringing Black Americans to the South, which describes in part

Priorities for the GNU

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After getting home from a cheery and dominant Baby Bok performance on Saturday night against Fiji, I decided to order a Gatsby from a restaurant

What Cape Town can learn from Minneapolis about housing

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Recently, while waiting to watch a basketball game on satellite television  in the godless hours of the morning I stumbled on a reality TV program

Can federalism answer the problem of lawlessness?

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My sister travels quite a bit around the world for her job. She recently remarked, when we were all together for a family gathering in

Socioeconomic & geospatial redress, not racial

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I had an interesting thought the other day about the fact that just because a problem is racialised, it does not mean that the solution