The ancient quest for intoxication

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‘Everybody Must Get Stoned.’ So wrote the 2016 Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature, Mr Robert Zimmerman (professional name: Bob Dylan). It would be more accurate

Monetary policy: Where to from here?

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The South African repo rate now sits at 3.75%, lower than it has been in the past 20 years at least. The interest on the

The ANC’s long lockdown

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President Cyril Ramaphosa told the nation early in the lockdown: ‘We are resolved not to merely return our economy to where it was before the

Will we really live in a different world?

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‘Our country and the world we live in,’ President Cyril Ramaphosa assured South Africans a month ago, ‘will never be the same.’ Echoing this, much

Saying lockdown ‘worked’ risks guaranteeing its return

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The President’s most consistently repeated claim is that the lockdown “delayed the spread” of Covid-19 as intended. No evidence has been produced to test that

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This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. May 23rd 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians

Lockdown failures and distorted fears

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The ANC government and many other commentators have stoked enormous fears about Covid-19, while a recent model – developed by the Covid-19 consortium advising the

Food for the Desperate: Court saves the day from Official Overreach

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Many of South Africa’s lockdown measures have been a combination of the bizarre and the misguided, albeit with evident reasons. Then there are others that

Dark clouds over lockdown relaxation

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Much of the country heaved a sigh of relief at the news that lockdown restrictions would be significantly eased from 1 June, but the economic

Covid-19 and the lockdown show scrutiny and reflection more important than ever

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Nicholas Lorimer and Terence Corrigan With President Cyril Ramaphosa’s address on Sunday evening, the lockdown of the economy was – by all outward appearances at