SA leaving Zimbabweans in the lurch

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About 180 000 Zimbabweans and their dependants, who could number as many as a million, will face deportation from South Africa at the end of

Population bomb fizzles out

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Just over fifty years ago, the Club of Rome published its influential Limits to Growth book. It has now released a study which found the

Water: only the excellence of outcomes matters

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Pummelled by load shedding, South Africa’s long-suffering people have come to accept that a plentiful and reliable supply of electricity is just not available to

Does the DA want power or principles?

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Why do political parties want to be in government? Why do people choose a political career? Why do voters vote as they do? I was

The human two-world perception

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Despite the vast increase in knowledge and understanding that the application of the scientific method and its by-product, secularity, have brought Western civilisation over the

It’s high time taxpayers protested about the child grant programme

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When a person decides to have up to 11 children while not working, logic demands that this person should shoulder the burden of providing for

The rise of theonomic authoritarianism on the right

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In Texas, a new bill proposes to place the Ten Commandments in every classroom in the state. Another would allow school districts to employ chaplains

Cancel ‘cancel culture’? Not so fast

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It used to be that heretics, witches, and others who dissented from the orthodoxy of public opinion were executed. Later, they were ‘merely’ imprisoned. Today,

DA’s Moonshot Pact for power and the need to avoid bad coalitions

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Party congresses are about putting on a show for the next election and are full of big talk. But the Democratic Alliance (DA) has for

How they made Eskom corruption vanish

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First, new electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa announced that corruption is not at the heart of Eskom’s troubles. Then, finance minister Enoch Godongwana exempted Eskom from