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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
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Who will guide our young adults?
- By Shawn Hagedorn
- . Apr 3, 2023
Western media and academia express so much anti-Westernism that they seem unable to acknowledge that Western consumers are essential to expanding good jobs for Africans.
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Deaths by Covid, deaths by Covid vaccines
- By Andrew Kenny
- . Apr 2, 2023
It is becoming clearer and clearer that fewer people would have suffered and died, and much less harm would have been done to the economy
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Miracle on Mons Road
- By Viv Vermaak
- . Apr 2, 2023
I have lived in Germiston for a long time. This is the first year I have thought of moving out. I have never felt so
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How the ANC can get minority voters back
- By Marius Roodt
- . Apr 1, 2023
The news that the ANC is looking to woo white and other minority voters back as supporters was met with something approaching universal derision. Even
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Why is South Africa failing?
- By Sindile Vabaza
- . Apr 1, 2023
Much has been written about whether or not South Africa is a failed state, given its crumbling infrastructure, bankrupted and corrupt municipalities, weak economic growth
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Let the market set interest rates
- By Mpiyakhe Dhlamini
- . Apr 1, 2023
The world is currently facing a banking crisis reminiscent of the 2008 global financial crisis –although policymakers are reluctant to draw the comparison. This comes