Helen Zille joins the IRR
The bold and veteran campaigner for liberal values will strengthen our fight for South Africa’s future as a free and prosperous society. I am very
Faux equality v the inequality of biology
Phoney numerical quotas for women do nothing for guaranteeing competence – and overlook the biological factor in how women view and pursue careers. The criteria
Land grabs threaten all
This is a high-stakes game, with violent confrontation an ever-present danger. Land grabs will not be tolerated. At least, this is the message that has
Saving the country’s pension savings from the NDR
The impetus for prescribed assets is expanding for the simple reason that the government is running out of other people’s money. While the nation remains
John Harris’s bomb
Remembering a testing moral challenge that remains vivid this half century later. The blast of a dynamite-and-petrol bomb on the main concourse of the Johannesburg
Freedom at UCT is teetering
Everything that a world-class university is meant to do – above all, to encourage critical thinking, debate and free speech – is under attack. Over
Water: a greater crisis than unemployment?
In water, as elsewhere, failure to maintain or extend infrastructure means the cost of doing so is far beyond the capacity of the impoverished, and
The moon and South Africa
Since 1994, our technological progress seems to have ground to a halt. Fifty years ago today – 21 July 1969 – the first human stepped
A very odd phenomenon
The risk of a significant social, economic, and civil rights slide-away that could turn South Africa into the next Venezuela should be taken seriously. In
What Micawber knew, and the ANC doesn’t
But the option that is open to the government is to use other people’s money to fund its mounting shortfall. Much everyday wisdom can be