Peter Hain knows how to fix everything. Government, he says, should be smart, risk-taking, entrepreneurial, efficient, effective, honest and responsive to public demand. Now why

Following publication last week of the Digital Vibes report, the acting director general of health, Nicholas Crisp, was asked whether that scandal had damaged the

Materialism’s appeal is wilting globally, while policies prioritising inequality entrench South Africa’s rampant poverty. It’s time to rethink objectives. The Spanish Flu was followed by

This is the second of a series under the banner, ‘As we were saying …’, which is intended to remind readers of the observations and

“Why should I pay for the services I receive? It is my basic human right to force other people, often poorer than me, to pay

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Instinctively, I’ve always thought it mistaken to think that voters are foolish even when it seems obvious that their political choices do them harm instead

Hello and welcome! This little column presents news and politics at its most absurd. SAtired supports freedom of speech, small government and free markets. This means we’re

In an article written on the 18th of November 2020 on the University of the Witwatersrand’s website, William Gumede, an associate professor in the School