More reason for Ramaphosa to veto the Employment Equity Amendment Bill
The Zondo commission’s recent reports have provided chapter-and-verse on the fraud and inflated pricing that bedevilled so many of the Gupta-linked procurement contracts entered into
SONA and the Budget – the limits of the ANC on display
This is the season when the government presents its plans for the year ahead and beyond. President Cyril Ramaphosa will deliver his annual State of
Amnesty’s anti-Israel report false and malicious
Amnesty International has produced a travesty of a report, rehashing old antisemitic tropes and falsely denouncing Israel as an apartheid state. It says a lot
Sisulu reveals the false promise of socio-economic “rights”
When South Africa’s final constitution was up for certification by the Constitutional Court in 1996, the South African Institute of Race Relations warned against the
How focusing on solutions provides a fresh perspective
The ANC and EFF being excluded from a 2024 coalition government would be a great leap forward. Yet this will remain both unlikely and insufficient
Putin, Biden, and the Ukraine
In 2016, I saw in person a famous man who died 98 years ago. He was a short, bald man in dark suit lying on
Inside Look at the Liberty Lobby
Looking back over the last four years, from the moment in December 2017 when the ANC adopted a motion to change the Constitution to corrupt
Declining living standards: Pandemic or Policy?
Covid-19 may have had a considerable impact on livelihoods and income levels in South Africa, but it is not the sole culprit for the decline
The colouring-in of tears
I sat down with a teacher the other day. She told me the story of how she was humiliated in front of her colleagues by
The crisis of crime
South Africa suffers from a catastrophically poor safety and security situation. Violent confrontational crime has increased for at least a decade; between 2011 and 2021