Parents just get in the way of social justice warriors

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We have written regarding our deep concern over the implementation of social justice through Critical Race Theory (CRT) in South African schools. An industry of

SA no longer has a free economy

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South Africa continues to slide down rankings of economic freedom, with the country’s overall score now at a record low. According to the latest Index

Forget the outside world, this is a disaster of the country’s own making

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Like a dreadful inevitability – because that is what it is – load-shedding is back. Once more the economy stutters as opportunities are lost, and

The nature of plastic pollution

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Environmental movements spend millions of dollars on campaigns to convince you and me that we are the problem. But ‘we’ aren’t. At least, we’re not

Barbarossa becomes king

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This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. March 4th 1152 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of Germany

Smuggling in a permanent income support grant via the back door

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Lindiwe Zulu, minister of social development, is seeking to smuggle in a permanent ‘social relief of distress’ grant by means of regulations on which she

Government is swimming upstream trying to get migrants to return

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Emigration is a perennial topic among middle-class South Africans, and in the last few years it seems more people (of all races) have been considering

Ukraine: SA has made a costly choice

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South Africa could pay heavily for abstaining in the United Nations (UN) vote to condemn Russia and call for the withdrawal of its troops. It

Inside Putin’s Russia: ‘We fear the worst’

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The authorities have closed a number of independent media outlets in Russia in recent days, particularly those critical of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Notably,

An ode to plastic

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Plastic is, nowadays, almost universally reviled. Yet it shouldn’t be. It is a magnificent material, with innumerable advantages that far outweigh its few disadvantages. Plastic,