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Population bomb fizzles out
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Apr 11, 2023
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
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Water: only the excellence of outcomes matters
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Apr 10, 2023
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
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Does the DA want power or principles?
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Apr 9, 2023
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
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The human two-world perception
- By David Matthews
- . Apr 8, 2023
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
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It’s high time taxpayers protested about the child grant programme
- By Tiego Thotse
- . Apr 8, 2023
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
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The rise of theonomic authoritarianism on the right
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Apr 7, 2023
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
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Cancel ‘cancel culture’? Not so fast
- By Martin van Staden
- . Apr 6, 2023
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,
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DA’s Moonshot Pact for power and the need to avoid bad coalitions
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Apr 5, 2023
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
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How they made Eskom corruption vanish
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Apr 4, 2023
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
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A complicated reality on South Africa’s farms
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Apr 3, 2023
I doubt that Yvonne Busisiwe Phyllis would find much common ground with me. She is a director of The Forge, which describes itself as ‘a