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
EWC constitutional amendment bill: mere bagatelle or major threat?
The draft Bill to amend the Constitution to allow expropriation without compensation (EWC) is ‘much ado about nothing’, an article in Business Day said yesterday.
When does rhetoric become action?
It was announced in recent days that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) had charged Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema for firing a gun
A dirty business
Local government politics has been particularly grubby in the past few weeks as the African National Congress (ANC) has taken over the administration of Johannesburg
Same elephant, different room
Last week Cyril Ramaphosa sounded the alarm about South Africa’s water crisis. Citing the famous line from Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner about ‘water,
Hate speech? Or just mild disapproval speech?
There are days, believe it or not, when I feel that there might still be some vestige of sanity in South Africa, some small thing