Simple equality of opportunity will fail to address the reality of racialised socioeconomic inequalities
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Crooks in ANC thrive because they ride on Ramaphosa’s credibility
The president could have been the second president of the ANC and the country after Mandela. He made it in December 2017 — but now he leads with some corrupt people he dislikes
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The ANC’s psycho-political failure
The politics of compromise and concessions preserve, rather than rupture, the master-slave dialectic
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Dear Liberals: Not everything you dislike is fascist (Part 1)
THOUGHTLEADER: The EFF deserve severe criticism on many grounds but discrediting its politics as fascist doesn’t allow for a thorough critique of the party, and the upheavals in our politics it represents
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Freud’s work on group behaviour sheds light on South African dynamics
According to Sigmund Freud, group identification and a sense of justice can preclude divisions based on envy. Worryingly, South Africa is lacking in these core elements
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Corruption casts a long shadow on our public discourse
When the words commonly associated in news stories with the term ‘Covid-19’ include ‘looting’, it’s time to shine a light on the problem
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Censorship is on the horizon if we don’t object
The increasingly undemocratic actions of the ANC must be exposed before we become a totalitarian state.
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Farm murders and the lie of white victimhood
THOUGHTLEADER: Violence menaces all sectors and people in our society. Yet the reality of rural crime and farm murders is being exploited and engineered into a political narrative to advance a sinister agenda.
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Put in context, Mandela did what he could with what he had
Those who attack his assertions and actions should ask themselves what they have sacrificed for the country they want
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If the government is really pursuing this, South Africa is toast
The ANC’s stubborn commitment to an incremental transformation into a communist state will lead to national suicide
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Covid-19: Contrasting preparation by the DA-led Western Cape and other provinces
When you make a choice, you also choose the consequence. The people of the Western Cape need to start thinking about the possibilities of Cape independence
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DA: A liberal party suddenly fearful of ideas?
“When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie” – Yevgeny Yevtushencko Strange times these. A proposed non-electoral pact between the ANC, a party synonymous with the advent of South African democracy, and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a party slavishly devoted to naked populism, would see them collaborating to evade electoral accountability […]