Stop patronising women

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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

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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

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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

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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’?

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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

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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

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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

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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?

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‘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

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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