Book review: Slabbert: Man on a Mission (Albert Grundlingh, Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2021) Albert Grundlingh’s biography of Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, Slabbert: Man on a

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South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccine roll-out is at least six months behind much of the world, including many African countries. The immunisation of healthcare workers has

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That ‘whoosh’ you heard was the passing yesterday of the four-day comment period for the proposed Covid-19 No-Fault Compensation Scheme. I have a counter-proposal. With

When others were toppling statues, “taking the knee” and jumping on the “Black Lives Matter” bandwagon, Boris Johnson set up a Commission on Race and