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Smoking ban violates human dignity
- By Nicholas Woode-Smith
- . Jun 16, 2020
South Africa’s lockdown has been lauded and condemned as one of the strictest and longest in the world. Possibly the most controversial aspect of this
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Some black lives are more equal than others
- By John Kane-Berman
- . Jun 15, 2020
What if the people who killed Collins Khosa in Alexandra township on 10th April had been white? We all know what would have happened. There
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Not Easy: Donald Trump’s Attempt to Restructure the G7
- By Barry D. Wood
- . Jun 14, 2020
American Dispatch is a new monthly feature from Barry Wood, an American journalist who for over two decades was the chief economics correspondent for Voice
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When the rage subsides
- By Michael Morris
- . Jun 14, 2020
When the global rage over the death in the United States of George Floyd subsides, as it will when life goes back to ‘normal’, it
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Black Lives Don’t Matter to “Black Lives Matter”
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Jun 14, 2020
Nothing has done more harm to black Americans this century than “Black Lives Matter”. This sinister movement cares nothing about black welfare but is obsessed
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Voluntary association could be the tonic SA needs
- By Mpiyakhe Dhlamini
- . Jun 13, 2020
You never lose your rights. Someone may violate them, but it is impossible to take them away from you, as every socialist has come to
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Cape independence is feasible – an open letter to John Steenhuisen
- By Phil Craig
- . Jun 12, 2020
‘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
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Could this be South Africa’s turning point?
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Jun 12, 2020
Particular moments in history are imbued with special importance. These are what we might describe as turning points, crossroads or watersheds. Occurring as these do
Why the IRR is warning the IMF about ANC’s bad policy choices
- By Hermann Pretorius
- . Jun 12, 2020
In the absence of meaningful reform, any help given to the South African government will only sustain the hardship South Africans have endured for at