

Matters of national security
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 16, 2025
Terence Corrigan and Makone Maja discuss Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni’s briefing to the media about a coup d’eta being a possible risk to the country; the

The ANC and the Mkhwanazi allegations
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Jul 16, 2025

Net zero whiteness
- By Robert King
- . Jul 16, 2025

US rejects Ramaphosa’s envoy
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 15, 2025

North Korea backs Russia in Ukraine
- By Staff Writer
- . Jul 16, 2025

Brazil ready to match US tariffs – Lula
- By Staff Writer
- . Jul 16, 2025

Sweden contemplates military overhaul
- By Staff Writer
- . Jul 16, 2025



Up in smoke
- By David Doubell
- . Jul 15, 2025

The pitfalls of age verification online
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Jul 15, 2025
Many countries have, or will soon, enact some sort of age verification requirement online. Doing so is a privacy nightmare, however. A growing number of countries are implementing age verification requirements on at least some internet content. The requirements vary

Theatre of Inquiry
- By Daniel Eloff
- . Jul 15, 2025
Due to a potential lack of enough talking at the National Dialogue, President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the creation of yet another commission of inquiry. It has become a familiar thing in South Africa. As a political scandal drops, public

The FLEE Principle for Parents and Politicians
- By David Gant
- . Jul 15, 2025
Providing freedom, love, education and example to their children is a fundamental requirement of good parenthood, and the state has a responsibility to enable parents to raise children into adulthood in a stable, healthy, progressive and productive political and socio-economic

Ramaphosa opens Pandora’s Box
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 14, 2025
Dr John Endres and Nicholas Lorimer discuss the announcement by the president of a commission of enquiry into the police. They also discuss the shocking contrast between the national dialogue and the real economic position of millions of South Africans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-g3Yxye-lE

South Africa, for good reason, has lost the ability to trust
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Jul 14, 2025
Like many of us, I suspect, I watched the media conference by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi with a grim fascination. Here we had a senior police officer taking the podium to denounce the contamination by organised crime

Why SA badly needs a new centre-left party
- By Nicholas Lorimer
- . Jul 13, 2025
At first glance South Africa’s politics don’t really look that interesting. A country with a racially segregated past elects a radical far-left[1] party (the ANC) to enact radical economic policies which aim to redistribute the wealth of the former elite

Lesotho’s declaration of a self-inflicted disaster
- By Greg Mills and Ray Hartley
- . Jul 13, 2025
Lesotho has declared a national state of disaster over “high rates of youth unemployment and job losses”. This measure in the landlocked southern African kingdom is likely to be in force until 30 June 2027. The immediate government justification is