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The illusion is ending: this is good

Opinions

South Africa’s national mood is now probably at a lower point than it’s been since the transition in 1994. A case could even be made

Water quotas: another existential threat

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President Cyril Ramaphosa invested enormous political capital over the first three years of his presidency in pushing Expropriation without Compensation (EWC). Inevitably, he ran into

South Africa’s employment conundrum

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‘We are damned if we don’t find a solution to unemployment – and it’s not really that difficult.’ This was the headline of a short,

A populist future?

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Populism is one of today’s political catchphrases. To most of us it probably signifies crudity in politics: the sort of thing symbolised by a demagogue

Mission to Moscow… and Kyiv

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On Tuesday last week, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that he would be part of an African initiative to seek peace in the conflict between Russia

What liberalism means to me

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It’s always interesting to get feedback on what I write. Positive or negative, online or in person, understanding how people view what I have to

South Africa’s ‘leadership’ conundrum

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Last Tuesday, Business Day rang in the shortened work week with a scathing editorial about the state of South Africa and the complicity of President

Finding citizenship, again

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Freedom Day came and went without much fanfare, a commemoration of sorts, but hardly a celebration. It’s been 29 years since the 1994 transition: sufficient

Compromising herd immunity

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Over the past few years, the Covid pandemic and the various responses to it turned vaccines into a major talking point – appropriately or oddly,

Classrooms, religion, and history

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I look forward to the contributions by Ivo Vegter; logical, cogently argued, empirically illustrated and typically well sourced. Agree with him or not, and I