Tinkering with constitutional legitimacy is dangerous and unnecessary
The new draft constitutional amendment that would allow for expropriation of private property without compensation is an affront not only to a prosperous society, but
SA’s economic prospects remain frozen
Just a few months ago on his visit to London to attend the Financial Times’ Africa Summit, President Cyril Ramaphosa will have felt the chill
The EWC Bill and the ‘Great Escape’ from poverty
‘The government will never pass a law which people have raised rational points against,’ pledged Nathi Mthethwa, minister sports, arts, and culture in November 2019.
The writing on the wall
Walking is always the best way to get to know foreign places, at the human scale that walking the streets always promises. But the same
CSA reflects the rot at the heart of SA politics
The embattled Cricket SA (CSA) board is ‘doing a good job and is going nowhere’ – and calls for it to be dissolved are ‘nonsense’,
A judicial want of judgement
The 17th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture delivered last month by the chief justice, Mogoeng Mogoeng, has not attracted as much attention as it warrants. Speaking
What we need is a Boris
In the run up to last Thursday’s UK election there were some anxious moments when the possibility of a Corbyn-led government loomed as the polls
The climate-change debate – right of reply
We published a column by regular columnist Andrew Kenny entitled ‘The climate scandal of 2009’. A reader, Bruce Sobey, commented at length on the article
Eroding property rights risks destroying the dream of ‘94
The government seems hell-bent on implementing a policy of expropriation without compensation (EWC) in South Africa, despite the very clear evidence that such a policy
Getting it wrong on ‘land reform’
In a 1996 book on South Africa’s apartheid legacy, Reconciliation through Truth, the late Kader Asmal and his co-authors made numerous assertions that can fruitfully