A national dialogue can work … if the right players discuss the right topics

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The official announcement of the upcoming national dialogue has been met with derision and disgust in some quarters.  A long litany of gripes and groans

Unacknowledged dangers in the new mining bill

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The Mineral Resources Development Bill of 2025 has been roundly rejected by most commentators on the struggling mining industry. Mining analyst Peter Major says the

What does Grok know about murder in South Africa?

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An image circulating on social media claims that at least 20 times as many people have been murdered in South Africa since 1994 than during

Iran – there is only one good way for this to end

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It was clear from the start of the Israeli strikes on Iran that they had been meticulously planned (for well over a year, according to

Eternal hope and Prague Springs − Central Europe’s Mandela

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“If we don’t have hope, we don’t have anything,” said Václav Havel, the playwright, author, dissident and politician. Considered an iconoclast, a Central European version

Do we want solutions or perpetual conflict?

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Thanks in large part to Donald Trump, violence against farmers is back in focus. And since the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) have featured prominently in

Gas the Jews! Queers for Palestine

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“Gas the Jews!” was chanted loudly and enthusiastically by a large crowd of demonstrators outside the Sydney Opera house on 9 October 2023. There were

Trouble Ahead? The G7/G20 in the Age of Trump

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Sometimes a picture says it all.  This June 2018 photo shows then German chancellor Angela Merkel beseeching an unmoved President Donald Trump to be reasonable

Setting the record straighter on sex and gender – UK court ruling, Helen Zille, and Shaun de Waal

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The issue of sex and gender has been in the South African news recently, as well as on social media, with various postings and articles

National Dialogue? Not with these people

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I have rules I apply whenever I see an “eminent persons list”. I take the names and assess whether any of them would either lead