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MICHAEL MORRIS: From Elizabeth I to corrupt SA, stunting new ideas comes at a cost - Business Day
In their expansive account of economic history, Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson provide a vivid glimpse of the cost of overweening power ...
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Finding citizenship, again - Politicsweb
Freedom Day came and went without much fanfare, a commemoration of sorts, but hardly a celebration. It’s been 29 years since the 1994 transition: sufficient ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: The ANC’s search for meaning is stuck in the past - Business Day
By a confluence of things that could not have been designed for better effect, ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula succeeded spectacularly last week in ...
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Budget for BEE cut
The IRR has requested that Treasury consider implementing a “maximum value-for-money” procurement policy, or at least publish a budgetary analysis of what ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: Thankfully history churns ceaselessly - Business Day
I well remember how, as the 1980s dragged on, writing about SA and its fundamental unignorables — all those problems that were as obvious as they were ...
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Climate debate shut down: Steyn vs. Mann verdict shakes free speech – Andrew Kenny - Biznews
Last week in Washington DC, USA, a court dealt a terrifying blow against science and free speech. A man was on trial, and found guilty, for attacking what he ...
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MICHAEL MORRIS: Police failure in pro-Israel rally taints hate crimes bill with pretence - Business Day
An all too familiar atmosphere of pretence pervades the inexorable progress of the Prevention & Combating of Hate Crimes & Hate Speech Bill through the ...
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Letter: Cricket SA buckled in David Teeger furore - Business Day
According to Cricket SA (CSA), David Teeger had to be removed as captain of the national U19 team because he was likely to be the focus of demonstrations that ...
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Addressing LGBT community’s challenges key to cherishing SA’s progressive Constitution - IRR
Nearly 20 years after the legalisation of same-sex marriage, South Africa’s progressive constitutional framework still chiefly benefits members of the Lesbian, ...
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Despite economic woes there is still place for optimism – Katzenellenbogen - Biznews
There is an intense and growing national anxiety about the country’s future.
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