Stop patronising women
Each Women’s Day, the usual suspects go on about how terrible it is that women are victims of what they term ‘gender-based’ violence. Then they
A month of one’s own … is not enough
If we are simply going to use Women’s Month to point out all the issues women face without providing solutions to them, then August is
Time to salute our Non-Profit Organisations
When the French political philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville visited the United States in 1831, one of the things that impressed him most was the ‘immense
75 years ago at Hiroshima
75 years ago, on 6 August 1945, just before 08h15, some anxious Japanese heard a sound above. Fearful of what the skies might bring, they
Are South Africans ‘frightened, flabby old women’?
The division had been called, the count was in. By 275 votes to 153, the proposition – ‘This house will in no circumstances fight for
BLM damage to SA Rugby
South Africa has had a shortage of achievements to be proud of, but sport has often filled the void. The BLM Global Network is undoing
The brutal reality: the shutdown SA cannot afford
Amid the plague of corruption, facilitated by cadre deployment and BEE, a different type of plague has been laid bare by the pandemic. This ‘plague’
The ‘black vote’ phenomenon
Democratic Party Presidential candidate Joe Biden made remarks to the effect that the American Latino community was more politically diverse than the African-American community. The
Women’s Month economics question: Did Bheki Cele associate alcohol and GBV to enforce patriarchal dominance?
‘That which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary’ John Milton, Areopagitica (1644) Counterpoint, a new occasional feature on the Daily
Budget shows just where land reform features in priorities
Parliamentarians are greatly concerned that the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development has had to slice some R2.4 billion from its R16.8 billion