Souring the dream: SA’s schooling failure
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has calculated that giving every child access to education and the skills needed to participate fully in
The strange psychology of anti-racism
How do you know what is racism and what is not? Anti-racist orthodoxy is bewildering and constantly changing, so that yesterday’s words attacking racism might
Spanish democracy under attack
A danger to democracy in Spain was demonstrated this week when the country’s conservative party, Vox – the third largest in the national parliament –
Harness inequality and science to create jobs
Criticism of the party Nelson Mandela personified had been restrained until Jacob Zuma appointed, briefly, a lackey as finance minister. So how can it be
Hitler comments not first time lecturer has overstepped the mark
‘Hitler committed no crime. All Hitler did was to do to white people what white people had normally reserved for black people.’ These comments came
Government claims a vaccine monopoly after all
After furiously denying in a sworn affidavit that the government stood in the way of private sector procurement of Covid-19 vaccines, the medicine regulator has
A matter of ‘certainty’
Certainty, certainty, certainty… an evocative concept that populates our political discourse. It is a commodity, it seems, that we need above all else. If only
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 1st April 1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces
TDF Show – UCT lecturer claims Hitler did nothing wrong
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Employment or EWC – what do ordinary South Africans want?
A fortnight ago the Ad Hoc Committee responsible for drafting the expropriation-without-compensation (EWC) constitutional amendment bill (the Bill) claimed that a burning land hunger among