This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 5th February 1862 – Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the

The government and other commentators – in describing the Expropriation Bill of 2020 as ‘a good piece of legislation’ which ‘carefully circumscribes’ the powers of

The passage through Parliament of the Expropriation Bill, which is likely later this year, will be a watershed moment in South Africa’s post-1994 politics, with

In eastern Mpumalanga this month, a ‘labour dispute’ ended in death. Two narratives emerge about the build-up. One revolves around murderous ‘white monopoly capital’, the

A new study found that the AstraZeneca vaccine is significantly less effective against the new Covid-19 strain that emerged in South Africa. This is a

Last week my colleague Anthea Jeffery reminded us that the deputy president, David Mabuza, had said that the Expropriation Bill currently before Parliament was necessary

Future generations are unlikely to be impressed by how today’s global challenges are being navigated today. It will be noted that South Africa’s stumbling transition

The most frightening thing about the climate scare is the assault on science. It is not just that climate alarmists usually have no qualifications in

As the creator of the six email shots that the Daily Friend sends out every week, I receive a few emails directly from readers over

‘Liberation’-era South Africa has reached its ‘apartheid’ moment in what is turning out to be something of a climax in the government’s now three-year drive