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Returning to race politics
- By Paul Pereira
- . Feb 28, 2020
South Africa’s return to the politics of race was heralded by the government’s acceptance of the then proposed Employment Equity Bill in 1998. This article
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Turning land into ‘dead’ capital via EWC
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Feb 27, 2020
Last week US secretary of state Mike Pompeo warned that expropriation without compensation (EWC) would be ‘disastrous’ for South Africa and its people. President Cyril
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Budget 2020: The problems of low economic growth and low private investment
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Feb 26, 2020
The Budget presented this afternoon is against a background of stagnant economic growth and declining per capita income. This stagnation and the dismal outlook make
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The De Klerk saga: SA is still a crime scene
- By Sindile Vabaza
- . Feb 26, 2020
I understand why so many people were angry at former president FW De Klerk’s insistence that Apartheid was not a crime against humanity. I don’t
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Mike Pompeo helps shift the ‘balance of forces’ against expropriation
- By John Kane-Berman
- . Feb 24, 2020
Last week’s warning to South Africa by the Trump administration about property rights and the rule of law could not have been more timely. In
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A week of apologies
- By David Bullard
- . Feb 23, 2020
I’ve often wondered who decides what day should be allocated to what fashionable cause. Is there, for example, a secret committee who meet and decide
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Crime and the black family
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Feb 23, 2020
An important note for South Africa was sounded in the latest and most dismal of the dismal United States (US) Democrat primary debates. For the
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A necessary argument about history
- By Michael Morris
- . Feb 23, 2020
History is often mistakenly thought to be only about the past. But the arguments of the past week over apartheid’s being declared a crime against
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South Africa’s dishonest De Klerk debate
- By Mpiyakhe Dhlamini
- . Feb 22, 2020
The lover of freedom is ever vigilant, and refuses to be fooled by silly things like race and the insensitive opinions of fellow citizens. That