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Mr Ramaphosa, let’s tear down this lockdown
- By Ian Macleod
- . Aug 14, 2021
Mr. President, Covid lockdowns have caused misery and death. What’s done is done. But even remaining measures deny human rights and cause terrible things. Now
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Confiscation of land (or EWC) – what a muddle
- By Paul Hoffman
- . Aug 14, 2021
About 190 000 years ago our planet was in the grip of an Ice Age. Oceans receded, ice caps proliferated and the surface of most
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Cape independence popularity boost
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Aug 13, 2021
In the wake of the total breakdown of law in order in KwaZulu-Natal and parts of Gauteng in July, a new survey finds strong and
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South Africa can succeed, if it changes course
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Aug 13, 2021
‘Far from falling apart, SA must and will succeed; she will enhance her co-operation with the world and stand as a beacon of the resilience
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- By Nicholas Lorimer
- . Aug 13, 2021
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. August 5th 910 – The last major Danish army to raid England
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One day left to help kill the bill
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Aug 12, 2021
Tomorrow is the deadline for public comment on proposed amendments to Section 25 (the property clause) of the Bill of Rights, as set out in
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What kind of country do we want to be?
- By Marius Roodt
- . Aug 12, 2021
Imagine, if you will, South Africa as an influential and technologically advanced member of an alliance of the world’s most powerful nations which act as
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Reshuffle without Reform
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Aug 11, 2021
Last week’s cabinet reshuffle was crisis-driven. But the crisis will not drive reforms to boost economic growth and deal with massive and growing unemployment. President
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Limits to Growth affirmed, wrongly, again
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Aug 10, 2021
Yet another study has been published that claims to confirm the doomsday scenarios of The Limits to Growth, first published in 1972. In predicting calamity