I.am.not.making.this.up💥 Citizenship Is a Right, Not a Favour: A Quietly Radical Judgment
One of the many downsides of today's smaller newsrooms is that some important issues just don’t get
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I.am.not.making.this.up: 💥 BEE or Bust? SA’s Empowerment Dilemma in the Starlink Spotlight
If the Starlink debate has done anything, it has rekindled South Africa’s long-running, anguished and contested debate about Black
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I.am.not.making.this.up. 💥 Fact checking the fact checkers: truthiness in the age of verified outrage
Following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s theatrical meeting with Donald Trump on Wednesday last week, there has been an absolute outpouring
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Watch 📺 - Donald Trump and the problem of having a BEE in your bonnet
The world and its distant relatives have had their say about the theatrical meeting between South African President Cyril Ramaphosa
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I.am.not.making.this.up 💥 Bling, books, and base politics: The strange symmetry of Trump and Ramaphosa
In the end, they both came away with a book. The much-heralded confrontation between SA President Cyril Ramaphosa and US
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I.am.not.making.this.up 💥 SA's terrible policing and the unacknowledged constitutional crisis
What do you do if your police force refuses to investigate certain kinds of crime? Essentially, in a constitutional democracy,
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I.am.not.making.this.up💥Boere on the run: America’s newest reality show refugees
A curious pantomime is going to be performed this week when a whole bunch of Afrikaner farmer “refugees” arrive in
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ICYMI 🔔 After the Bell: Plug in, or stall out? SA motor industry at yet another crossroads
What should South Africa do with its car industry, particularly in the face of the likelihood of new import tariffs
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ICYMI 🔔 After the Bell: The Tao of Buffett — patience, principle and percentages
When you write about Warren Buffett, it’s pretty easy to run out of superlatives pretty fast. There are minor
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I.am.not.making.this.up 💥 The State of Capture: From Saxonwold to the White House
US president Donald Trump has just passed his 100 days in office and as it unfolds, I can’t help wondering whether Americans should take a closer look at what happened during South Africa’s state capture period to see if there are any noteworthy parallels.
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ICYMI 🔔 After the Bell: A humble epistle to Freedom Day
In political terms, 27 April 1994 was the greatest day in my life – as I’m sure it was for
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LISTEN 🎧 Is freedom just another word for nothing left to lose?
LISTEN: Is freedom just another word for nothing left to lose?Most arguments in favour of freedom are positive: the
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