Are we ready for the Energy Revolution?

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South Africa is in a deep and very serious energy crisis that has had a major impact on our economy, our businesses, and our lives.

The Private Health System: Oh so expensive!

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This is the fourth in a series of five articles in which Michael Settas elaborates on the critically important distinction between universal health coverage (a

Does vaping turn you into a pothead?

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Science about public health issues is often agenda-driven. The latest nonsense to emerge from the halls of academia is that youth vaping leads to cannabis

Barbed Wire Sunday

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This Week in History recalls memorable and decisive events and personalities of the past. 13th August 1961 – Cold War: East Germany closes the border between

Against the silver bullet or one thingism 

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One of the best political insights I’ve ever heard, that on reflection is quite obvious, is that people are extremely vulnerable to the “silver bullet”

Decline of the ANC: Let’s not get ahead of ourselves

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Three recent polls of party-political support are confusing and contradictory. With tectonic shifts in South African politics possibly under way, polls are in demand to

Have the Nats been proven right?

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With increasing frequency, I hear that the old-school apartheid racists were right: hand over control to black people, and you’ll end up with a corrupt,

Small businesses are businesses. We need to realise this – Part 1

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This month – August – Pope Francis has asked the Catholic faithful to pray for small- and medium-sized businesses. In a video appeal, he described

Pfizer gives damning evidence against Pfizer vaccines

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The most damning report I have ever seen on the dangers of Covid-19 vaccines comes from Pfizer Incorporated. In it, Pfizer lists the adverse events

Transkei is not part of South Africa

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A little earlier this year, the government held yet another Communal Land Summit, which, over one-and-a-half days, consisted of four ministerial speeches, instructions on how