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Standing up to Goliath
- By Paddi Clay
- . May 21, 2023
Anger is a negative, strong emotion. If you Google or Bing it, you will see few words in its favour. It can lead to genocide
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The great EEA exemption myth
- By Gabriel Crouse and Mlondi Mdluli
- . May 21, 2023
One aspect of the new Employment Equity Act (EEA) – that its singular advantage is that it exempts all businesses with fewer than 50 employees
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Provincial reserves are in a perilous state – report
- By Joshua Weiss
- . May 20, 2023
The State’s metastasising ineptitude and poor governance knows no boundaries. A recent report published by the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT), simply titled The State of
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Employment Equity Amendment Act – your future’s in danger
- By Chris Patterson
- . May 20, 2023
The President recently signed the Employment Equity Amendment Act (EEAA) into law, ostensibly to improve ‘transformation’ in the private sector. Claiming that its objective is
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Climate advisers who don’t like coal should go nuclear
- By Ivo Vegter
- . May 19, 2023
The Presidential Climate Commission doesn’t like the plan to delay the shuttering of coal-fired power plants, but wants Eskom to extend the grid for renewables,
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Napoleon’s imperial ascendancy
- By Nicholas Lorimer
- . May 19, 2023
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 18th May 1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed Emperor of the French
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A defence of the High Court’s ‘foolish, dangerous judgment on load-shedding’
- By Martin van Staden
- . May 18, 2023
Andrew Kenny writes that Judge Norman Davis of the Gauteng High Court issued ‘a foolish, dangerous judgment on load-shedding’ when the latter ordered government to
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The Lady R: What do we really want?
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . May 17, 2023
South Africa’s relations with the US are in a crisis, and there is no clear path out of the mess. South Africa’s increasing lean towards
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We should welcome dumping, not penalise it
- By Ivo Vegter
- . May 16, 2023
The government is weighing new anti-dumping tariffs of up to 232% on a range of products imported from China and India, ostensibly to protect local
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What liberalism means to me
- By Terence Corrigan
- . May 15, 2023
It’s always interesting to get feedback on what I write. Positive or negative, online or in person, understanding how people view what I have to