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The ancient quest for intoxication
- By Andrew Kenny
- . May 31, 2020
‘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
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Monetary policy: Where to from here?
- By Mpiyakhe Dhlamini
- . May 30, 2020
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
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Will we really live in a different world?
- By Terence Corrigan
- . May 29, 2020
‘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
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Saying lockdown ‘worked’ risks guaranteeing its return
- By Gabriel Crouse
- . May 29, 2020
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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- By Nicholas Lorimer
- . May 29, 2020
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
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Lockdown failures and distorted fears
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . May 28, 2020
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
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Food for the Desperate: Court saves the day from Official Overreach
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . May 27, 2020
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
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Dark clouds over lockdown relaxation
- By Ivo Vegter
- . May 26, 2020
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
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Covid-19 and the lockdown show scrutiny and reflection more important than ever
- By Nicholas Lorimer and Terence Corrigan
- . May 26, 2020
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