The World’s Most Successful Ideology is Reviled

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Liberalism has brought about unprecedented freedom and prosperity, but is now reviled and misunderstood and wrongly named. Liberalism, the world’s most successful political and economic

South African mining: rich opportunities loom in post-combustion era

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South Africa’s mining industry will lose ground if it fails to take full advantage of the country’s substantial geological endowment – and rich opportunities loom

Check your assumptions!

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The policy push by the ANC to introduce EWC has engendered great confusion and concern amongst many with a stake in the country, at home

Damaging EWC proposals underscore the need for vigilance

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Advocate Wim Trengove SC proposals on EWC are particularly damaging and politically naive. They are often also mistaken on the law. For many months now,

Eskom, Affirmative Action & BEE

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The crippling of Eskom is a textbook example of the follies and dangers of affirmative action and BEE (Black Economic Empowerment). Under apartheid, which was

The ANC+ and its amazing hold upon the electorate

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The ANC’s national support has dropped 15% since the 2004 general election . But those who think the ANC has been in power long enough

Pulp Fact

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I don’t read Business Day these days but apparently an academic called Charl Linde had written a letter the previous day with the screaming headline

The scene is set for a Gauteng coalition government

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The big contest to watch in the 8 May election is Gauteng, where, if current trends hold, all three parties could form a coalition –

The silencing of the lambs

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The full text of the speech by Institute of Race Relations CEO Frans Cronje at Stellenbosch University, 13 March 2019 Ahead of this event a

Government stealth tax to fund ailing Eskom

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Officially, for the 2019/20 financial year, government will not be increasing income taxes. The only taxes set to increase are the indirect taxes. The only