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Trump Versus DeSantis
- By Barry D. Wood
- . May 7, 2023
SARASOTA, FL: Something strange is happening in Florida, the home state of Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, leading candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. Last
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You can put your solar system where the sun don’t shine
- By Viv Vermaak
- . May 7, 2023
You know that long whistle a mechanic makes when he looks at your engine while he slowly shakes his head? The mournful eye contact as
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Amended employment equity law won’t reduce racial poverty, economic inequality
- By Mlondi Mdluli
- . May 6, 2023
On 21 April, my colleague, Gabriel Crouse, and I went to Tuynhuys in Cape Town to physically hand over a letter to the Office of
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How to get South Africa moving
- By Mpiyakhe Dhlamini
- . May 6, 2023
South Africa should pursue two sets of objectives in order to sustainably solve poverty and grow the national wealth. The first should be a policy
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Gayton McKenzie is not fit to govern
- By Ivo Vegter
- . May 5, 2023
Gayton McKenzie wants to be president, and he’ll say or do anything to make that happen, including trample all over the rights of the poorest
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Fur trading in Hudson Bay
- By Nicholas Lorimer
- . May 5, 2023
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 2nd May 1670 – King Charles II of England grants a permanent
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It’s a fallacy to measure ‘fair share’ only by tax contribution
- By Martin van Staden
- . May 4, 2023
It is not rare today to hear calls for the wealthy to ‘pay their fair share’ in the context of taxation. But is it appropriate
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SA Foreign Policy in Knots
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . May 3, 2023
Last week a high-powered official South African delegation rushed to Washington to try and persuade the US that we have not gone over to the
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Keystone Kops hit the streets of Gauteng
- By Ivo Vegter
- . May 2, 2023
Panyaza Lesufi, the Premier of Gauteng, has taken a leaf out of Western Cape Premier Alan Winde’s book with his provincial Crime Prevention Wardens. With
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Finding citizenship, again
- By Terence Corrigan
- . May 1, 2023
Freedom Day came and went without much fanfare, a commemoration of sorts, but hardly a celebration. It’s been 29 years since the 1994 transition: sufficient