Reform in ANC comes at a cost

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Amid the flurry of attention paid to the suspension of Ace Magashule and the supposed consolidation of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s power over the ANC, an

How to build a Trabant

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Small business development minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni wants to enforce ‘local content’ in manufacturing by prohibiting the import of entire categories of products. That’s how you

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This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 10th May 1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli

Covid-19: Wuhan and the lab-leak hypothesis

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For much of the past year anyone who considered the possibility that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, originated in a Chinese lab was accused

Three proposed changes to the EWC constitutional amendment bill

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The draft constitutional amendment bill (the Bill) allowing land expropriation without compensation (EWC) is already damaging enough to make South Africa largely uninvestable. The Ad

The Basic Income Grant: Rushing onto treacherous ground

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The economic hardship from Covid-19 lockdowns has boosted campaigns across the world for basic income grants from governments.   With growing concerns about poverty and

Vandalism is still a crime even if it’s popular

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Lord Peter Hain has made an extraordinary appeal to stop prosecuting Extinction Rebellion vandals, on the basis that a perverse jury verdict in a recent

Joe Biden forced to backtrack on his racism allegations

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Last month Tony Sewell, black chairman of a commission which challenged the view that the United Kingdom (UK) was a racist country, was vilified as

Exploiting race keeps apartheid-era injustice on life support

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Thuli Madonsela began her Nadine Gordimer Lecture at Wits University this week by dwelling on the difference between justice for everyone and, as she put

The canned lion and the octopus teacher

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Two killers prowl the trees of my garden near Fish Hoek in Cape Town, two predatory animals hunting for prey, without which they would starve.