Freedom vs fanaticism
Over a coffee and a pre-editorial conference cigarette, I was doing a crossword in the smoking room on the fourth floor of Newspaper House in
South Africa’s greatest worry is lack of an alternative
There is a fundamental difference between the plight of Americans living under a dreadful Democrat government and South Africans living under a dreadful ANC government.
The liberal case against (vaccine) passports
Jonathan Katzenellenbogen in his piece, “Vaccine passports, please”, makes a liberal case for vaccine passports, being those pieces of documentary evidence of vaccination that will
How to eat an elephant: the slow demise of the ANC
As the saying goes, the way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. And the same goes for ending the ANC’s electoral
Tread very carefully before opening vaccine passport door
Jonathan Katzenellenbogen writes, “vaccine hesitancy by sizeable portions of the population may curb or delay our reaching herd immunity. … [this will] force us for
A state of unreality
When will President Cyril Ramaphosa act on ‘reform’? This has been one of the most enduring questions since he took office with the intention, supposedly,
Even a vaccine mandate would not violate liberal principles
My fellow Daily Friend contributor Jonathan Katzenellenbogen threw the cat amongst the pigeons by announcing his support for vaccine passports. While we await the publication
More absurd claims about the EWC constitutional amendment bill
Now that the Constitutional Court has ruled that the local government election must be held between 27th October and 1st November 2021, parliamentary proceedings are
The liberal case against vaccine passports
Jonathan Katzenellenbogen in his piece, “Vaccine passports, please”, makes a liberal case for vaccine passports, being those pieces of documentary evidence of vaccination that will
Editorial: debate is the essence of liberalism
Once again an article published by the Daily Friend has received a wave of criticism. This is the article by Jonathan Katzenellenbogen supporting the idea