Much ado about nothing all over again

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Spot the difference. Statement 1. There is no doubt that market-based employment is the most sustainable form of job creation. South Africa needs a thriving

An up-to-date worldview appreciates how ideals are being exploited

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Illiberal Russian and Chinese leaders exploit how open societies overzealously embrace key ideals. South Africa’s dismal economic prospects reflect our elected leaders promoting ideals which

Why soft power is important for South Africa

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It’s no secret that South Africa today is being crippled by corruption and a drowning economy. This was not always the case. A little over

Catch ’24: Trump, DeSantis, and the future of the Grand Old Party

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Is the Republican Party inching towards a post-Trump era? A recent article in The Economist looking at polling and fundraising numbers from the United States

Mandatory Covid-19 vaccines are an abomination

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I speak as someone who probably owes his good health, and perhaps his life, to mandatory vaccination over sixty years ago. I say that it

Sagarmatha Technologies: From Uber equivalent to dysfunctional website

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Iqbal Survé has swept together a collection of insolvent, unprofitable media-related assets and plans to list them on the JSE on Friday, following an initial

The judgment that broke Sapref’s back

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Once upon a time, South Africa had four oil refineries capable of refining 508 000 barrels of oil a day. This, along with the 150 000

Teach children to respect each other for who they are, not what they look like

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Just over a week ago, educationist Jonathan Jansen devoted much of his column of 10 February, ‘Read this for meaning, Institute of Race Relations’, to

Anti-racism in schools: a new religion

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When I was a teacher, one of my students mentioned that his geography teacher had told his class that the textbook was wrong about the

SONA: Reality strikes, common sense still missing

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“….but at the length truth will out” – William Shakespeare In late 2021, billionaire investor Rob Hersov caused a furore when he publicly declared that