If sitting on the fence is uncomfortable, get off it
Magda Wierzycka, CEO of Sygnia Asset Management, says the policy of prescribed assets, enabling government essentially to expropriate pensions and savings to fund its expenditure,
DA derangement syndrome strikes SA media
No matter what the DA does or says, you can be sure a chorus of journalists will declare it to be racist, to seek a
Media hostility must not now throw the DA off course
Nobody should be surprised that the recent decision of the Democratic Alliance (DA) to reject race as a means of classifying people has attracted so
A very shallow very deep problem
There is only one subject on Earth more sensitive than race, and that is women’s looks. Either subject can provoke intense feelings of hurt and
How might we remember the days of plunder?
The Museum of Natural History in London is currently conducting an internal review of its displays and treatments of the work and specimens of that
SA commentary: a crisis of credibility
Read anything about the supposed primacy of race in South African policy-making today and you will be urged to accept the truth of it on
Race denialism not the problem; race obsession is
Much of the mainstream media’s analysis of the decision of the Democratic Alliance (DA) not to use race as a proxy for disadvantage has been
We haven’t adopted every bad American idea
South Africa and America are linked by history in numerous ways: both our countries are marked by a history of racial segregation, and both inherited
Thirty years wasted, economy halved
Former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said of South Africa recently that ‘almost three decades were wasted’, and Stats SA indicated that the economy had halved.
Land is not the key to economic justice
In a column last week in Business Day, Carol Paton framed South Africa’s future in terms of the country’s fractious land politics. Referring to the