From woke to winning

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The title, ‘#Go Woke, Go Broke,’ tidily packages Helen Zille’s persuasive argument.  Only when she pirouettes to close her new book on an up-note does

Origin of Covid – Following the Clues (Long read)

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‘Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?’ This is the question at the heart of the following article by noted science journalist Nicholas

No white engineers – unless they are Cuban

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White South African engineers are held in high regard all around the world – except in South Africa, where the ANC has waged a successful

Arizona: Tech boom in an uneven desert economy

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Phoenix, AZ – Money is pouring into Arizona’s semi-conductor industry.  Intel, America’s biggest computer chip manufacturer, is spending $20 billion to build two new fabrication

Is Adam Habib’s victory pyrrhic?

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The Board of Trustees of London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) has accepted ‘in full’ the recommendations of the independent external investigation

Is Cape Independence Racist?

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Nothing closes down the space for honest debate quicker than the injudicious use of the ‘R’ word. So, with a subject as controversial as Cape

Reform in ANC comes at a cost

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Amid the flurry of attention paid to the suspension of Ace Magashule and the supposed consolidation of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s power over the ANC, an

How to build a Trabant

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Small business development minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni wants to enforce ‘local content’ in manufacturing by prohibiting the import of entire categories of products. That’s how you

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This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 10th May 1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli

Covid-19: Wuhan and the lab-leak hypothesis

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For much of the past year anyone who considered the possibility that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, originated in a Chinese lab was accused