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In No Uncertain Terms

South Africans don’t believe what they say they believe

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Makone Maja and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the latest polling data from the SRF and explore what precisely it tells us about SA. They also discuss electricity theft and licensing reform. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQYtWk53RYI

In No Uncertain Terms

The socialist flaws in the Freedom Charter

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Last week was the 70th anniversary of the Freedom Charter, a seminal document in the history of South Africa’s liberation from apartheid. On 26 June 1955, about 3,000 people converged on the football ground in Kliptown, Soweto. They came from

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Appearance versus reality – the problem with modern leadership

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This past week NATO chief Mark Rutte referred to President Donald Trump as 'daddy' as he praised the US president for his role in achieving the Israel-Iran ceasefire. Speaking at the NATO summit at The Hague, the former Dutch prime

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The DA's strategic problem

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Hermann Pretorius and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the next steps in the GNU after the DA's "ultimatum" to the ANC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTFbJdNdZYg

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Putting “public service” in the public service

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Governments may come and go, but the state over which they preside will endure. In a democracy, its staff and institutions will faithfully carry out the lawful instructions of those elected to office, subject to clear sets of rules and

In No Uncertain Terms

GNU without results

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In his book Common Sense, Thomas Paine famously wrote that “(i)t is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies”. Paine clearly did not have South Africa’s Government of National Unity in mind as it remains profoundly

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Hate, peace, and the bomb

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I am as confused as everybody else about events in Iran - not only confused about what’s going on but whether I approve of it or not, or whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing, or whether it