‘Struggle session’ at Fish Hoek High: a feature, not a bug

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‘Authentic antiracism is rarely comfortable. Discomfort is key to my growth and thus desirable.’ Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People

Radical change needed at climate summit

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This week and next, tens of thousands of climate blowhards are gathering in a luxury coastal resort town, to make more promises they’ll never keep.

Am I optimistic?

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I heard a story some years back about a European diplomat whose term of duty in South Africa had come to an end in early

The right education for the modern world

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“Imagine what Julius Caesar would have done with a diploma in military studies!” So spoke a cartoon character in a joke set in ancient Rome

Of Toxic Women and Toxic Men

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It may surprise you, although if you are a liberal it should not, that although I am a feminist I don’t hold with the romantic

What if you stopped drinking and nothing changed?

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What happens if your life does not suddenly make an about-turn, like all those stories you hear at the AA meetings? You don’t get the

Welfare nation

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Offering social welfare services to people who through mother nature’s vicissitudes cannot provide for themselves is a noble deed. However, for a long time now

The necessity of property rights 

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Property rights are the bedrock of modern civilisation. Without certainty that one’s property will remain one’s own and not be stolen by criminals or robber

Business is gagged in the SA administrative state

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I was surprised by the enthusiastic, ideological defence of the colour bar by John Dludlu (“Dis-Chem is on the right path with transformation”), decades after

St Stithians to St Capture

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This is the third article in a series by Martin Humphries about the “school capture” of  St Stithians by its program of Diversity Equity and