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Our sick obsession
- By Michael Morris
- . Jan 8, 2020
Fifty-three years ago, liberal MP Helen Suzman railed against the latest amendment of apartheid’s keystone law, the Population Registration Act, warning John Vorster’s government that
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Job Reservation à la 2019
- By Sara Gon
- . Sep 24, 2019
An application for a job has just been published. The position being advertised is for a researcher in marketing. The contract being offered is fixed
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The destructive folly of sanctions
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Sep 23, 2019
Economic sanctions continue their wreckage. They strengthened Castro’s tyranny in Cuba, prolonged apartheid and now threaten war in Iran. Sanctions are always destructive, usually producing
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Prescribed assets: fraudulent excuses for legalised theft
- By John Kane-Berman
- . Sep 23, 2019
In a country where the bulk of business habitually acquiesces in economically destructive policies, it is gratifying to see the forthright opposition to the ruling
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Climate Hysteria
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Sep 22, 2019
The greatest folly of our age is the belief that mankind is changing the climate in a dangerous way. It has no basis in science,
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Not all human rights are equal
- By David Bullard
- . Sep 22, 2019
“The Human Rights Commission is the national institution established to support constitutional democracy. It is committed to promote respect for, observance of and protection of
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SABC’s failures a microcosm of SA
- By Marius Roodt
- . Sep 21, 2019
It’s time the government began correcting its own failures instead of expecting the rest of us to carry the cost. By the time you read
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Mugabe’s death, and Zimbabwe’s dire suffering, should prompt a rethink of EWC
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Sep 19, 2019
South Africans cannot allow a self-serving ANC elite to inflict a Zimbabwe-type disaster on the country. The death last week of former Zimbabwe president Robert
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A more than native tongue
- By Michael Morris
- . Sep 18, 2019
As Heritage Day approaches and we cast around for tokens of South African essences, the youngest of Africa’s indigenous languages – despite the recent remarks
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Freedom means letting people choose
- By Sara Gon
- . Sep 17, 2019
Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi should not hold a job in government if he regards the choice to speak Afrikaans and the creation of a