What should SA, at the least, be saying about the Wagner Group?
The goals of South African foreign policy in Africa are stability, peace and growth. If Africa does well, South Africa should do well. South Africa
US offers case study in race-blind diversity
A new Supreme Court ruling in the US has declared race-based affirmative action in university admissions to be unconstitutional. For good or ill, the conservative
A perspective on the debacle at Warsaw
South Africa’s recent embarrassment in Warsaw, which saw a planeload of South African security officials, journalists and crates of weapons grounded on the tarmac, was
Transgenderism: the AI robot v the drag queen
Last week I had my first encounter with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) robot. This happened by accident. I had requested a search on my laptop
The Message from Amazon: Promoting Business = Job Creation
A wise South African, Magnus Heystek, has written, “where capital isn’t welcome, it packs up and goes elsewhere.” Amazon’s quest for a second corporate headquarters
If Musk and Zuckerberg can do it, so can you
Elon Musk does it, Mark Zuckerberg does it, and I do it. Everybody’s doing Jiu-Jitsu. It’s the sport de rigueur of Hollywood and the rest
Remembering the future: how to racially stream a family
In 1985 Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, then leader of the PFP, a forerunner of the DA, chronicled his experience as a lawmaker in The Last
A federal pan-Africanism
The idea of a United States of Africa has been around since the days of Marcus Garvey’s 1924 poem “Hail, United States of Africa”, an
Nurse shortage crisis in South Africa
South Africa has been faced with a critical shortage of nurses, which has been worsening over the years, resulting in a number of challenges in
Religious freedom, classical liberalism, and me
My open disdain for religious belief has, not surprisingly, sparked a heated response. Allow me to clear up some misconceptions. If you’re not interested in