By 2050, China is predicted to have an economy twice the size of the US economy. What will this shift in power mean for trade and international relations?
Communism
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Greta Thunberg, the Bible and capitalism
Perhaps the biblical teachings — and that of the youth — is that, instead of abolishing the free market system, we should simplify it
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South Africa has never had a good government
The only time change has taken place, it is in response to global events such as World War II. This government faces the changes that the Covid-19 pandemic will bring
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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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Does the ANC realise that their expropriation drive will make of South Africa an economic ‘basket case’?
By the day I am more and more astonished that the ANC — with a leader whom I used to regard as an intelligent man — is forging ahead with an expropriation policy that can have only one result: lowering the economic status of South Africa to rock bottom, where it can rub shoulders with […]
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The theoretically bankrupt intifada against liberalism: A response to Jared Sacks
In case you didn’t get the memo: liberalism is passé. Society’s (imagined) love affair with liberal politics is over, and you’re supposed to be cheering the advent of a new polity: the rise of “radicalism” as the new descriptor of choice, one to be employed by a million student activists and thought leaders in their […]
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What is ideology?
Those of us who were studying at the time of the great “cold war” tussle between the superpowers would remember that, at that time, one thought of ideology as a more or less coherent system of ideas that demanded a way of living, or certain actions in accordance with those ideas. So, for example, communism […]
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Mandela the communist?
By Dr John Lamola Stephen Ellis’s approach in the brouhaha that has followed the SACP’s December 10 2013 statement that Nelson Mandela was a member of its central committee when he was captured in August 1962 exposes the enormity of the implications of this claim of the SACP. It places the matter within the context […]
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These Chinese football imports are not fong-kong
The rate at which world top football stars are migrating to China, I am starting to believe Sepp Blatter that maybe, just maybe football began in the communist state. The latest this week was former Chelsea and Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba who decided to part ways with the Yorkshire pudding for the Shenghai sushi. […]
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Capitalism or socialism? We have no choice
It is not surprising that South Africans have trouble thinking straight. The poor live in a state of anxiety and insecurity, while high crime rates have led to a fortress mentality among the rich. Fear and anger permeate our opinions and shape our politics. The haves persist in the shadow of Zimbabwe’s ruin; the have-nots endure, […]
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Blade Nzimande, the new Juju
Communism, as formulated by Germans Marx and Engels in their industrialised continent far from the African situation, is seminally Eurocentric. When the South African Communist Party was founded by white, middle class manufacturers and merchants, disproportionately Jewish, Soviet leaders felt blacks weren’t yet advanced enough for Communism. During the 1921 Rand Revolt, the communists were […]