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MICHAEL MORRIS: Spare us the ‘transformation’ ANC has inflicted on us - Business Day

A colleague teasingly suggested last week that I couldn’t possibly grasp the essentials of Johannesburg politics as I lived in a city that had had the same ...

Should the DA choose its leader based on race? - Politicsweb

The DA is on the cusp of a leadership election, and Sandton councillor Martin Williams has argued that it must choose former Joburg Mayor Mpho Phalatse to lead ...

Thoughts for a time of uncertainty - Newsi

We’re all heading into an uncertain future. South Africa, the world, each of us individually, and Newsi too – a platform that I’ve done work for over a number ...

MICHAEL MORRIS: SA needs revolutionary fervour for creative policies — not nonshutdowns - Business Day -

If last week’s nonshutdown advertised SA’s apparent lack of enthusiasm for any sort of revolutionary overhaul, perhaps what it did signify instead was that ...

Roald Dahl books reissued with sanitised language, sparking censorship debate – Barry D. Wood - Biznews

Consider the children’s books of best-selling author Roald Dahl, who died in 1990. In 2021 Dahl’s family sold video rights to streaming giant Netflix for £500 ...

Letter: BEE a backward slide - Daily Dispatch

The Public Procurement Bill could be the most dangerous new law passed in 2023. The bill is too heavy on racialism by tons.

Is BEE holding back South Africa’s growth? - Biznews

Comments made en passant – which is a pretentious way of saying ‘in passing’ or ‘as an aside’ – can sometimes be very revealing. This occurred to me while ...

13 November 2022 - I owe my — admittedly slight — familiarity with Giambattista Vico to reading the work of Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said.

16 August 2022 - At an address at the University of Pretoria last week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken set out a vision for a partnership between his ...

14 February 2022 - In his article “Read this for meaning, Institute of Race Relations” (10 February), Professor Jonathan Jansen levels certain accusations ...