High Court 1, Constitutional Court 0 on paralysed local councils

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In the past fortnight, two meetings of the Johannesburg metropolitan council have ‘descended into chaos’, in the graphic words of Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John

When words hurt

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My generation was taught to meet verbal bullying at school with the doggerel, ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt

Remembering the ‘Forgotten Cemetery’

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Book review: So they remember: A Jewish Family’s Story of Surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine Maksim Goldenshteyn (2022) In June 1996, Florida resident Ruth Glasberg

Eskom’s tariffs – South Africa’s political time bomb

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When President Cyril Ramaphosa visited Soweto last year to campaign in the local government elections, there were serious protests. Some residents said they were protesting

Information wants to, but cannot, be free

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Much bad information is free. Much good information costs money. Nathan J. Robinson, editor-in-chief of the left-wing magazine, Current Affairs, proposes solving this problem by

Sweeping school drop-out rates under the rug

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Although the matric results of 2021 show that the overwhelming majority of learners have passed, the figures conceal a low pupil retention rate. The final

Tutu’s Truth Commission was fundamentally flawed

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Chaired by Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission was hailed both in this country and around the world. But its methodology was flawed,

Why SA ignores today’s prosperity-inducing free lunch

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Few societies have ever been able to fund abundant imports through extracting below-ground riches. Such geological free lunches have recently given way to today’s prosperity-inducing

Fear not US inflation – the Powell Fed is coming to the rescue

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In October 1979 Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, only two months into the job, stopped in Hamburg en route to the International Monetary Fund meeting

My racist relative

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This is a shocking story about a racist cousin of mine. I was reminded of it in this age of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and