Souring the dream: SA’s schooling failure

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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

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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

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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

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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

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‘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

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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’

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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

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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

Employment or EWC – what do ordinary South Africans want?

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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