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Why the FCA amendment must be rejected – even by those who hate guns
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Jul 23, 2021
Any prospective piece of legislation must be evaluated from two perspectives. The first is whether the goal is to be supported. The second is whether
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Overblown, ironic and wrong – a reply to the Brookes grandchildren
- By Michael Morris
- . Jul 22, 2021
At the very start of South Africa’s lockdown just over 480 days ago, I described a discomforting insight that has a direct bearing on the
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SA in crisis – Part 2: South Africa’s blow-up was not a coup attempt or an attempted insurrection
- By Frans Cronje
- . Jul 22, 2021
This is the second of a five-part series setting out why South Africa blew up a week ago, arguing that the blow-up was not due
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Election Postponement Irrational
- By Gabriel Crouse
- . Jul 22, 2021
Former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke issued a non-binding report to the Independent Electoral Commission calling for municipal elections to be postponed from October this
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Damaging Constitutional Amendment Bill should be scrapped
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Jul 22, 2021
The Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill is so damaging that it must simply be abandoned. The sanctity of property rights should instead be strongly reaffirmed,
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Letter: This is not our grandfather’s IRR
- By Daily Friend
- . Jul 22, 2021
We write in response to Martin van Staden’s mischaracterisation of the South African liberal tradition upon which the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) was founded
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SA in crisis – Part 1: Why did South Africa blow up?
- By Frans Cronje
- . Jul 21, 2021
This is the first of a five-part series setting out why South Africa blew up a week ago, arguing that the blow-up was not due
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The Looting and Destruction: A Hobbled Recovery without Big Reform
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Jul 21, 2021
The full account of the destruction from last week’s violent unrest is still unknown. What is clear is that the recovery will not be easy
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An experiment in expropriation and redistribution
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Jul 20, 2021
The ANC has always promoted the virtues of redistributing wealth and, more recently, using expropriation without compensation as a means to achieve this. Well, now
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‘A single spark can start a prairie fire’ – a letter from beyond the grave
- By Mao Zedong
- . Jul 20, 2021
Some comrades in our Party still do not know how to appraise the current situation correctly and how to settle the attendant question of what