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BEE and the question of race
- By Eckart Schumann
- . Jun 30, 2021
Black Economic Empowerment, or BEE, was defined in the 2001 Commission Report as an integrated and coherent socio-economic process. It is aimed at redressing the
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Legalising sex work is long overdue
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Jun 29, 2021
Since the birth of South Africa’s democracy, there has been a movement advocating for the decriminalisation or legalisation of sex work. Liberal principles of individual
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Let’s not forget the other type of state capture
- By John Kane-Berman
- . Jun 28, 2021
The proposed partial privatisation of South African Airways (SAA) and the lifting of some restrictions on the private generation of electricity have caused a flurry
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Our debates miss the big picture
- By Shawn Hagedorn
- . Jun 28, 2021
Asia is now the centre of global growth, as it converted massive poverty into the world’s most populous middle class. Circumstances across this country and
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‘What bothers me about the vaccination “rollout” the most’
- By Daily Friend
- . Jun 28, 2021
Mounting public frustration at South Africa’s mishandling of the vaccination drive against the spread of Covid-19 infections – as much as the docility of the
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Non-racialism, the choice of a supermajority of South Africans
- By Gabriel Crouse
- . Jun 27, 2021
Earlier in June, President Cyril Ramaphosa called for South Africa to review BEE. Proponents of race-based policy have always had two basic arguments. Both are
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Second thoughts on Covid vaccines
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Jun 27, 2021
In a previous column, I wrote a glowing recommendation for the mRNA Covid-19 vaccine. I am now going to backtrack a bit – just a
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Roger Southall and the mischaracterisation of the IRR
- By Martin van Staden
- . Jun 26, 2021
The IRR did not back off when Apartheid intellectuals accused it of ‘socialism’ and will not back off when Transformationist intellectuals accuse it of ‘conservatism’.
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Lobola and abuse: is cultural sensitivity harming SA women?
- By Caiden Lang
- . Jun 26, 2021
‘Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.’ Shirley Jackson, The Lottery, 1948 At