Three proposed changes to the EWC constitutional amendment bill
The draft constitutional amendment bill (the Bill) allowing land expropriation without compensation (EWC) is already damaging enough to make South Africa largely uninvestable. The Ad
The Basic Income Grant: Rushing onto treacherous ground
The economic hardship from Covid-19 lockdowns has boosted campaigns across the world for basic income grants from governments. With growing concerns about poverty and
Vandalism is still a crime even if it’s popular
Lord Peter Hain has made an extraordinary appeal to stop prosecuting Extinction Rebellion vandals, on the basis that a perverse jury verdict in a recent
Joe Biden forced to backtrack on his racism allegations
Last month Tony Sewell, black chairman of a commission which challenged the view that the United Kingdom (UK) was a racist country, was vilified as
Exploiting race keeps apartheid-era injustice on life support
Thuli Madonsela began her Nadine Gordimer Lecture at Wits University this week by dwelling on the difference between justice for everyone and, as she put
The canned lion and the octopus teacher
Two killers prowl the trees of my garden near Fish Hoek in Cape Town, two predatory animals hunting for prey, without which they would starve.
As By Fire and Whiteness Burning
‘When in a climactic moment, during the recent looting spree to find university pictures to put on the bonfire, the members of Rhodes Must Fall
Which has aged better?
Throwing Copper, the album by the rock band, Live, was released on 26 April 1994, the day before South Africa’s first all-race election, making democratic
Creecy and animal-rights activists: a response to Ivo Vegter
While I agree with much of what Ivo Vegter says regarding the High Level Panel (HLP) Report and Barbara Creecy’s response to it, I do
The politics of the empty gesture
The late Winnie Madikizela-Mandela will be memorialised once more in Johannesburg, with Willian Nicol Drive to be renamed in her honour. This comes at a