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28 November 2022 - The crisis that has evolved at Fish Hoek High School over alleged racism raises the importance of school management retaining its authority ...

‘National democratic society’ is an ideologically loaded term, not a harmless turn of phrase - Daily Maverick

South African political discourse is often obfuscated by language calculated to invoke emotion and sentiment. So it is with ‘national democratic society’, ...

‘Slash Waste, Cut Taxes’ offers simple steps to boost growth – IRR

Putting value for money at the core of all public procurement and reducing VAT to 11.5% are the core recommendations of the second paper in the IRR’s Blueprint ...

2 June 2021 - Karl Marx het die Kommunistiese Manifes ingelui met die woorde 'ʼn Skrikgedaante spook by Europa ⁠– die spook van die Kommunisme'. Dit is 'n ...

28 April 2022 - A few weeks ago, Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Ebrahim Patel, was in fighting form in defence of government policy. At issue was ...

5 July 2021 - A few weeks ago (on 14th June) this column asked whether there was a “growing backlash against wokeism”. The answer seems to be yes, certainly in ...

29 July 2022 - A most strange attitude exists among ANC leaders towards white engineers and white teachers, and skilled white people in general.

10 May 2022 - In my last column, I discussed the government’s commitment to its race-based model of empowerment: Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment. ...

2 November 2020 - Dear Mr Maimane, Last month you published a letter to “dear white South Africans”, of which I happen to be one. You thereby played the race ...

Affirmative action failures: Malaysia’s warning for South Africa - Biznews

Affirmative action in Malaysia has failed to uplift the poor – and South Africa is now experiencing the consequences for the same mistake.