A state of unreality

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Vaccine passports, please

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Rising vaccination rates mean we might be back to a new normal soon. But vaccine hesitancy by sizeable portions of the population may curb or

On CRT the IRR has proven its case

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On 26 August 2021 Chris Roper wrote an article in the Financial Mail entitled ‘Unmasking the IRR’s bogeyman’, arguing that ‘(the) Institute for Race Relations

The threat from the illiberal right

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Classical liberalism is under assault from both the left and the right. It has fought and defeated left-wing threats (communism) and right-wing threats (fascism) before,

A very BIG but very bad idea from the GOOD party

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Brett Herron, secretary-general of the GOOD party, recently wrote an article for Daily Maverick which that publication headlined ‘South Africa’s shocking jobless figures make a

The IMF, financial repression and SA

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A funding crisis seems increasingly probable. But would that lead to the IMF negotiating necessary policy reforms? The IMF’s prospective value-add can be formidable when