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The EWC saga continues

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It’s perhaps somewhat counterintuitive, but what has become understood as the Expropriation without Compensation drive has never been entirely and solely about the ability of

A tragedy and a farce

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I’m no great admirer of Karl Marx. I say this having read a great deal of Marx’s own work, and a great deal by those

Beware moral panics – they are bad for all of us

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Klawer – an out-of-the-way dorp in the northern reaches of the Western Cape – has featured grimly in the news over the past two weeks.

A comprehensive failure of governance, and government

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While the country digests the reports of the Zondo Commission, detailing how the carcass of the state was carved up under the so-called State Capture

Unity above all

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Last week, the Financial Mail ran a cover article entitled ‘Waiting for Dawn: Why isn’t Ramaphosa winning the war on Corruption?’ It’s a grim read

EFF campaign illustrates a much bigger problem

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The red-clad activists demanding to examine restaurants’ staff profiles have been condemned from various perspectives as an unjustifiable and illegal intrusion into companies’ labour relations,

No benefits to economic xenophobia

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Over the past week, the Economic Freedom Fighters visited restaurants ‘to check employment ratio of South Africans and foreign nationals’, scouring employee lists to gather their

EWC: the year ahead

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The past year ended on a dramatic note, with Parliament failing to pass the Bill to Amend Section 25 of the Constitution. This was a

The Constitutional line holds – but so must resolve to defend it

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It’s not often that the prompt for an article about South African governance is good news, but the failure of the African National Congress (ANC)

The end of year act for EWC

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As the year winds down, and with it emotional and intellectual energy, it is important not to forget that politics and governance continues apace. Indeed,