More reason for Ramaphosa to veto the Employment Equity Amendment Bill

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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

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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

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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”

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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