Flags and threats: a liberal rumination on the limits of free expression
Julius Malema did it again – he threatened genocidal violence as a crowd cheered him on. Somewhere, a hypothetical Oom Frikkie also displayed the 1928
Big business’s pledge: Co-option and a State without the will to change
Since its pledge of commitment to the country and its offer to help the State, big business has entered into a new and closer relationship
Government created the taxi mafia
The taxi industry is a law unto itself. Its strike, to make the Western Cape ungovernable, is therefore hard to break. As I write this
The water quotas are as much about lawmaking as about agriculture
For years, ‘the land’ has been the vehicle through which property rights have been attacked. Going back well over a decade, a succession of proposed
When elites block growth
Why did nearly all societies stumble badly when confronting Covid? Why did the virus swiftly mutate in isolated South Africa whereas this country’s stand-offish economy
I love the smell of old books first thing in the morning
I have a room in my house I haven’t cleaned for 20 years. An urgent selling of the property has forced me to start dismantling
Taxi mafia exposes a nation of thugs and cowards
The South African nation is divided into thugs and cowards. Most of us are cowards. The thugs menace the cowards, rob them and humiliate them.
Treasure South Africa’s institutions
Amid the noise from the Red Berets’ children’s party last weekend and the coup in Niger: two seemingly unrelated events, the question in my mind
Down goes Dis-Chem advert – A win for responsible medical messaging
It took me three years of obsessively battling, but I finally secured a victory over bad medical messaging by people who should know better. Most
Could the Tallaght strategy work for SA?
“You don’t play politics with the economy…….An opposition which acts in a way that makes every step forward more painful than it needs to be