Let’s talk about three laws we need to repeal

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I’ve followed the contretemps between Martin van Staden and Anton Harber with interest, and I was pleased to see that Harber submitted his critique to

Transition in Omaha

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WASHINGTON, DC: At the 3 May Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska legendary investor Warren Buffett announced that he was recommending that 62-year-old Greg

Is Gwede Mantashe in love with Cecil John Rhodes?

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Is Cecil John Rhodes the mentor and hero of Gwede Mantashe? After Mantashe’s mad outburst on Freedom Day last Sunday, I can think of no

“Feel terrible, eat less!” The Ozempic method?

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I am not morbidly obese. I am not anorexic. I am not bulimic. But I am a binge-eater, and I am sick and tired of

“Shitholes” and supremacy: the historical illiteracy of Africa’s “unique” failures

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Africa today is often cast as the global case study in post-colonial failure − plagued by fragile institutions, economic stagnation, and political instability. This has

Hyenas, carcasses and race laws

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Late one night recently I stumbled on a nature channel that featured hyenas fighting fiercely over a carcass − and I could not help but

How ideologies are used to capture our minds

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An ideology, religious or political, is a doctrine giving expression to a set of coherent ideas and beliefs that claims both to represent the objective

The crash, the blame, and the fake economist

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As the US economy craters, President Donald Trump blames former president Joe Biden, while his trade czar, who once channelled a non-existent economist, calls it

Tanzania and Uganda: time for a little less carrot and more stick?

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The arrest on 9 April of Tundu Lissu, the Tanzanian opposition leader, and the subsequent banning of his party, Chadema, from elections for the next

Too much alcohol and South Asian takeaway fried in seed oil …

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I wasn’t thinking clearly when I asked News24’s in-house doxxer Kyle Cowan earlier this week if he’d seduced the African man his ex-partner accused him