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From boots on the ground, to potholes being suddenly filled could only mean one thing: the political silly season has been revved up to high gear. Pretty soon the knocks will come rapping on the door and it won’t be Jehovah’s Witnesses but Fighters, Cadres, sometimes an obscure figure you’ve never even heard of. The … The people tell the big shots to “go away” as the LGEs loom Read…

A cursory glance at the general opinions about SA’s public health care facilities and you begin to see them as places where people don’t necessarily go to find help – but to die. The video evidence on social media is as ubiquitous as it shocking, probably worrisome when you’re of a certain income bracket. From … Views from a public hospital ward: Part 1 Read More »

In what can only be described as a blindside nobody ever saw coming, this week Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma had a much-publicised meeting with Kallie Kriel. The feisty March and March leader – forthright and brutal with journalists and anyone else who takes umbrage at her unwavering anti-immigration stance – appeared cordial and even spoke Afrikaans next … Afriforum and March and March meet. Socials erupt. Read More »

If nothing else, the recent unemployment statistics affirm, at least in the general perception, that the government – even in its current configuration – is way out of its depth when it comes to meaningful and sustainable job creation. With unemployment hovering above thirty percent over several years, at the very least, the powers that … Unemployment up as local government elections loom Read More »

The legal showdown of the post-democratic era got underway this week when the Democratic Alliance, Afriforum, the Institute for Race Relations and at least one other organisation took to the Western Cape High Court to challenge the highly-contested Expropriation Act of 2024. It was a grand show of force and with so much riding on … Expropriation: Political tool or an act of justice Read More »

When Prof Jonathan Jansen sat down to publish yet another article – as has been his habit spanning many decades – he would’ve known that he’d poke the springbok and stir the kind of discourse that would see the antelope bolting far out of the university campus and into the unwinnable politics of race and … Language exclusivity in universities: Part 1 Read More »