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Eroding property rights risks destroying the dream of ‘94
- By Marius Roodt
- . Dec 14, 2019
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
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Getting it wrong on ‘land reform’
- By Lee Stuttaford
- . Dec 13, 2019
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
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EWC constitutional amendment bill: mere bagatelle or major threat?
- By Anthea Jeffery
- . Dec 12, 2019
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.
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When does rhetoric become action?
- By Amy-Claire Morton
- . Dec 11, 2019
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
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Same elephant, different room
- By John Kane-Berman
- . Dec 9, 2019
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,
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Hate speech? Or just mild disapproval speech?
- By David Bullard
- . Dec 8, 2019
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
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The problem with Trump
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Dec 8, 2019
The problem with President Donald Trump is that his opponents are even worse than he is. In 2016, Americans were faced with a dreadful choice,
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Is economic reform politically impossible in SA?
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Dec 7, 2019
Earlier this week South African Airways (SAA) was placed into business rescue, a form of bankruptcy protection from creditors to effect a turnaround. This is
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A troubling glimpse of the future
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Dec 6, 2019
To understand how a phenomenon will unfold in the future, a good starting point is to look to how it developed in the past, and