High Court 1, Constitutional Court 0 on paralysed local councils
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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