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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
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Is working with the ANC unworkable?
- By Shawn Hagedorn
- . May 1, 2023
Deflated expectations for investment-led collaborations reflect punctured confidence. The ANC’s 1990s transition from its liberation movement origins to being a ruling political party did not
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The worst sexual perversion in history
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Apr 30, 2023
The worst sexual abuse of children in all history is happening right now. Very young children, full of the normal doubts and anxieties about their
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Lucky strike
- By James Lorimer
- . Apr 30, 2023
They struck oil in southern Namibian waters last month. Again. In the last year, oil companies have hit oil three times in the same area,
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BEE – how do we deal with race classification?
- By Eckart Schumann
- . Apr 29, 2023
The ANC Government continues with its Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) efforts to ‘unleash the full potential of all South Africans to contribute to wealth creation’.
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Understanding the culture that we are in the process of losing
- By David Matthews
- . Apr 29, 2023
Anyone reading this has been extraordinarily fortunate, and in a profound way that they are quite possibly unaware of. They were lucky enough to be
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The dark intentions of industries that call for regulation
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Apr 28, 2023
Meta/Facebook wants new internet regulation, and has been calling for it for years. A South African body art industry association claims to want to be