Dis-Chem’s Disaster
This article, the third most-read article in 2022 looks at the Dis-Chem debacle, when a memorandum announcing a moratorium on the hiring of white people
The Tesla bubble has burst
As the truth of who Elon Musk really is becomes painfully clear, reality is dawning on investors in his electric vehicle company, Tesla. It isn’t,
Not just corrupt, not just useless, but evil
In this piece, published in July, and which was one of our most-read pieces of 2022, Andrew Kenny provides a damning overview of ANC governance.
A high court judgment that invites more land invasions
This piece, which was the Daily Friend‘s second-most read article of the year lays out the threat posed by a a court ruling to property
Loadshedding strangles startups in the crib
A saddening message from a small local enterprise offers a stark reminder that many small businesses simply cannot cope with higher stages of loadshedding. A
Purging politically induced learning blockages
The Covid pandemic freshly queried how we define ‘freedom’ and ‘to live’. Meanwhile, political actors sought to shape and exploit such views. A year ago
Technological disappointment in 2022
The year that is ending has been rather a disappointing one for technological advance, and in particular the advance of two much hoped-for technologies that
The Ardennes Offensive
This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 16th December 1944 – The Battle of the Bulge in the final
Stop press! Squirrel keeps a promise!
In a turn-up for the books, President Cyril Ramaphosa has kept a promise – and the Department of Justice wrote an exquisitely brief Bill –
Hostility to property rights
As South Africans are being asked yet again to suspend their now practised cynicism and allow that the governing ANC really does mean to renew