Tax and the broken social contract
Last year, the SA Revenue Service put out an advert to the country’s taxpayers. Against the background of footage meant to invoke the Covid-19 pandemic,
Gates should fight, not fund, ‘anti-racist math practice’
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funded a radical-left fringe group that believes mathematics, as it is presently taught, is racist. This is a
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 5th March 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey
‘Running out of other people’s money’
‘The problem with socialism’, as British prime minister Margaret Thatcher memorably said, ‘is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.’ The truth of
Taking on the public service
In recent weeks the government has seemed to be finding new resolve to deal with the deep problems in the public service. There is certainly
Private sector may, but won’t, procure vaccines
Contrary to its public statements, government has admitted that the private sector is perfectly entitled to procure and administer vaccines. The problem is the private
Time to stop #CitizenAbuse
The mainstream media and many financial institution analysts are driving the line that last week’s budget was enlightened and littered with efforts to reduce the
Are all those beaches shrinking and islands drowning?
Back in 1989 Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the United Nations (UN) Environment Programme, said that entire nations could be wiped
Solutions require situational awareness
Criticism of the ANC was quite restrained until about five years ago when evidence gushed forth of rampant patronage. Yet subsequent electoral loyalty seemed to
A contemptible insult
In the very week in which the Institute of Race Relations delivered a memorandum to the Presidency warning the government about the costs of abusing