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Is the DA’s minimum wage stance smart politics?
- By Ivo Vegter
- . May 3, 2024
The DA’s position on the national minimum wage has prompted predictable outrage from the left. ‘We appreciate that the DA is being honest about how
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Defeat of the Danes
- By Nicholas Lorimer
- . May 3, 2024
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 29th April 1521 – Swedish War of Liberation: Swedish troops defeat a
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Does the ‘free market’ lead to public sector corruption? Of course not
- By Martin van Staden
- . May 2, 2024
In 2020, Buddy Wells, a musician and MMT-enthusiast, wrote an article that, in broad terms, argues that South Africa’s pursuit of ‘neoliberal’ free-market reforms is
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What comes after one party domination?
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . May 1, 2024
Whether the ANC retains its majority or not, we are now shifting away from a period of near absolute domination by one political party.
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Western Cape should issue its own visas
- By Nicholas Woode-Smith
- . May 1, 2024
The Department of Home Affairs demonstrates an incompetence endemic to the national government and its culture of corruption, partisan loyalty, and centralised failure. Earlier this
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Why Freedom Day is still worth celebrating
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Apr 30, 2024
Perhaps a certain amount of bitterness is to be expected, but regretting the democratic dispensation is not. This past weekend, South Africa celebrated 30 years
Thinking about Cape independence
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Apr 29, 2024
I was raised in Natal (as it was then), a province regarded in the context of the segregated politics of the time as different. Its
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Sacrificing dignity perilously
- By Shawn Hagedorn
- . Apr 29, 2024
After thirty years of promising ‘a better life for all,’ ANC rule has entrenched rampant poverty and world-topping youth unemployment. If, as the lead partner
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The first 30 years of apartheid
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Apr 28, 2024
Apartheid essentially began in May 1948 when the National Party won the whites-only general election (on seats, not on total votes). It eventually set up
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Advocates advising Parliament confirm key role for courts in disputed expropriations
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Apr 27, 2024
The Expropriation Bill of 2020 (the Bill) has been adopted by Parliament and will become law once President Cyril Ramaphosa gives his assent to it.