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Pie in the Sky revisited
- By John Kane-Berman
- . Aug 9, 2021
Last week’s column on ‘How to fix the country’ stated up front that Cyril Ramaphosa would probably do very little to halt South Africa’s downward
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How BIG debates can squash BEE
- By Shawn Hagedorn
- . Aug 9, 2021
Our ruling party is expected to benefit electorally from its anti-corruption efforts, while legal forms of patronage sink the economy. Basic income grant (BIG) debates
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The last of Big Coal?
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Aug 8, 2021
If you had to name one substance above all others that has delivered the human race into long life, good health and prosperity, it would
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Cabinet reshuffle no harbinger of reform – Frans Cronje
- By Daily Friend
- . Aug 7, 2021
The Cabinet reshuffle ‘sees the government consolidating an orientation that is quite at odds with reform and only reinforces state-directed economic planning and related dogma’.
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Should Covid vaccines be compulsory?
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Aug 7, 2021
People who oppose vaccinations are perpetually terrified of being forced to vaccinate. Is this fear justified, and if so, is mandatory vaccination defensible? The stock
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A game of thrones: a parasitic, elite apparatus
- By Sindile Vabaza
- . Aug 7, 2021
Over the past two weeks I have been reading George R R Martin’s novel, A Clash of Kings, and watching the series that it spawned,
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EWC and custodianship are real threats
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Aug 6, 2021
News reports over the past weeks have suggested that the ANC and EFF have reached an impasse over the proposed amendment to Section 25 of
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- By Nicholas Lorimer
- . Aug 6, 2021
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 2nd August 338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II
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Abandoning the field when there’s everything left to play for
- By Hermann Pretorius
- . Aug 5, 2021
It’s uncontroversial to say these days that South Africa is in the grip of a collective sense of doom. It seems that the only piece