Black victims don’t matter, only white offenders

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Two horrible crimes against black people, one in the USA, another in South Africa, made me ponder. Reactions to the crimes made me ponder even

Pressure-cooker politics

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My mother had a pressure cooker, the air fryer of its day. It was a boon to working women. It rendered tough meat tender, stewed

‘Equity’ requirement dashes Starlink opportunity

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The major news last week, and deservedly so, has been the signing into law of the Employment Equity Amendment Act (the Act). The Institute of

Trends against Putin: Western support and international isolation

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Few propaganda machines have worked as hard to craft the image of a brilliant strategist for their political master as the modern Russian one. Even

If you need electricity, don’t decommission power stations

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A special cabinet meeting on Wednesday discussed slowing down the decommissioning of old coal-fired power stations. It’s one of the smarter ideas we’ve seen in

McDonald’s goes big

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This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 15th April 1955 – McDonald’s corporation dates its founding to the opening

Why (classical) liberalism ought to be the philosophy of the courts

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Constitutionalism did not fall out of an intellectual vacuum. The fingerprints of ‘classical’ liberalism are necessarily all over it, a fact not seriously disputed by

Rod Harper unpacks the Employment Equity Amendment Act and the problems it presents

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We present the podcasts of the weekly IRR Show on Chai FM. The show is broadcast live every Tuesday from 09h00 to 10h00 on Chai

Racial quotas in hiring: another own goal

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Last week President Cyril Ramaphosa declared his fifth annual SA investment conference a great success. And last week the President also signed into law the Employment

Infamous ‘peer-reviewed’ antivax paper retracted

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In January, Covid-19 vaccine opponents got all worked up about a paper that appeared to show 278 000 vaccine-related deaths in the US. Of course, the