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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

Water: only the excellence of outcomes matters

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Pummelled by load shedding, South Africa’s long-suffering people have come to accept that a plentiful and reliable supply of electricity is just not available to

A complicated reality on South Africa’s farms

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I doubt that Yvonne Busisiwe Phyllis would find much common ground with me. She is a director of The Forge, which describes itself as ‘a

No solutions on display last week – and not only in the shutdown

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The Economic Freedom Fighters’ ‘national shutdown’ last week brought out modest numbers of people, intimidated some businesses into closing and gave the EFF an outsized

Exempt farmers from municipal rates to help them with State of Disaster

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South Africa is now in its second state of disaster since 2020, but for the agricultural sector it represents another in an escalating series of

Bigger problems

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‘We’ve got bigger problems.’ These days, that’s likely to be the response from most ordinary people in South Africa if pressed about their views on