Don’t cite Mercola at me, ever!

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The quickest way to convince me to dismiss someone as ignorant is when they support their arguments with links to Joseph Mercola’s popular alternative health

Debate urgently needed on trade-offs between jobs and inequality

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Our politics and economics will remain unaligned until we objectively assess how inequality and unemployment interact. The national dialogue can be meaningfully upgraded by developing

Liberation of a special type

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Earlier this month Phumlani Majozi wrote on Politicsweb of the ‘heartbreaking’ figures on ‘family breakdown’ in South Africa. Citing Statistics South Africa, he reported that

The ordeals of two black women

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Oprah Winfrey, a US TV personality, was interviewing a black woman who had suffered an ordeal. She asked, “What were your feelings as you were

Listening, learning and a lost opportunity

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It is doubtful that Adam Habib has done himself any favours by departing from his spirited defence of intellectual dispassion at the start of the

Transformation: US Style

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SAVANNAH, GA:  Until Union victory in the Civil War, the southern ports of Savannah in Georgia and Charleston in South Carolina were infamously linked to

Tourism sector counting on faster vaccine roll-out

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South Africa’s slow vaccination rate risks permanently damaging one of the country’s few thriving economic sectors – the tourism industry.  Emerging and developing markets across

EFF a threat to media freedom

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The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have once again clashed with the broader media in South Africa. Julius Malema, the self-styled ‘Commander-in-Chief’ of South Africa’s third

How climate alarmists fuel climate denial

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‘The end is nigh!’ is an age-old conceit of religious zealots and prophets of doom. Preaching apocalypse may comfort believers, but it isn’t very convincing

Will business live up to its responsibilities?

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Some years back, I had a conversation with a senior executive in one of the country’s business organisations. This was just after President Jacob Zuma