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MICHAEL MORRIS: Free speech is about keeping on talking about what we may get wrong - Business Day
My sense of Richard Feynman is that his reputation as a towering scientist of the 20th century rests largely on the fruits of his attachment to uncertainty, ...
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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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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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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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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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Miracle on Mons Road in Germiston - SA People News
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 disturbed by the way our country is ...
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Mistaking the ‘Malema’ risk: A reply to Martin van Staden - Politicsweb
This is really a reflection on the virtue of being less than wholly convincing, or convinced, and thus avoiding the penalty of bringing the argument to a close.
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MPs must follow National Treasury in respecting civil society independence
26 October 2022 - MPs serving on Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance should follow the National Treasury’s lead and abandon key clauses in the General ...
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Music, heritage, and a debased politics - Politicsweb
Music is an immutable part of the human experience. Song and rhythm have captured our joys and heartaches, celebrated our achievements, mourned our failings ...
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Nathi Mthethwa’s BLM comments a flagrant disregard of constitutional freedoms – IRR
21 August 2020 - Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa’s comments about the choice of eight South African rugby players not to “take the knee” ...
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