Deep divide on EWC constitutional amendment bill

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Last week the Ad Hoc Committee charged with drafting the expropriation without compensation (EWC) constitutional amendment bill (the Bill) invited several organisations to make oral

How to boost investment in SA’s decaying infrastructure

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South Africa’s infrastructure is decaying through poor maintenance, vandalism and insufficient investment. Last week Business Leadership South Africa, which represents the biggest corporates in the

Why do poverty and hunger persist?

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Poverty and hunger appear to be persistent problems, and many people hold capitalism in general, and neoliberalism in particular, responsible for perpetuating them. This is

How The New York Times downplayed Nazi crimes

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This year’s Holocaust commemoration in South Africa – Yom HaShoah – will be held as a national Zoom meeting on 8th April. One of the

Free education for all

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“Free Education for All!” cry the would-be students. Where do they want the money to come from? From the working class masses who will never

The great liberal confusion

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My moedertaal is colourful and versatile – especially when it comes to insults and swearwords. I’m convinced that rugby is largely such a popular sport

Optimistic Moves

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What a week. We moved. Talk about stress.  The upheaval took me off social media (mainly because South African providers are so hampered by bureaucracy

Free-market solutions to land reform

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If not expropriation without compensation, then what? How do South Africans finally redress the imbalances caused by apartheid?  It is a fallacy to believe the

SAtired – edition five

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Hello and welcome! This little column will present politics at its most absurd. SAtired supports freedom of speech, small government and free markets. This means we’re centrists.

So, who does own Daily Maverick?

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“The Oppenheimers have been directly responsible for the destruction of black families and black men in particular, benefiting extraordinarily from apartheid and they, too, have