28 November 2022 - The crisis that has evolved at Fish Hoek High School over alleged racism raises the importance of school management retaining its authority to deal with an issue.
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28 November 2022 - Janusz Walus, who in 1993 assassinated Chris Hani, the Communist Party leader, will be released on parole. This was the decision of the Constitutional Court last week. The decision has caused outrage in many quarters. Limpho Hani, Hani’s widow, called it “diabolical”. It has stirred up old controversies about the strange circumstances surrounding the assassination. More important, it has reawakened deep and disturbing moral questions about our reactions to the cold-blooded murder of different types of people.
27 November 2022 - Historian Simon Schama’s phrase, “top nation elation” came to mind as I mulled over the pomp of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s state visit to London and the vestigial tokens of the long, part rewarding, part tortuous relationship between Britain and the world.
26 November 2022 - South Africa is now entering the next phase in its political development – one where there is real political contestation, and being certain of who will govern after the next election is not a foregone conclusion.
CR’s slick UK visit hides damaging EWC, race agenda – IRR
24 November 2022 - The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) is encouraged by the positive tone of the interactions between President Cyril Ramaphosa and British leaders over the course of this week’s visit.
24 November 2022 - About 18 months ago the word from the government was that the future of South African Airways (SAA), the bankrupt state-owned airline, was all solved.
IRR seeks guidance on SCA ruling on Zuma
21 November 2022 - The IRR is exploring legal avenues in light of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) ruling on ex-President Jacob Zuma's unlawful release on medical parole.
19 November 2022 - Recently ActionSA's Western Cape Provincial Chairperson, Michelle Wasserman, was given a right of reply by News24 to an article by Nicholas Woode-Smith in which he questioned what the growth of ActionSA could mean for the DA in the Western Cape.
16 November 2022 - Manias, panics, and near crashes have plagued the cryptocurrency market. After the collapse last week of FTX, other exchanges which buy and sell digital assets are frantically trying to offer reassurance to their clients.
Land Court Bill threatens property rights, IRR warns NCOP
16 November 2022 - Economic freedom indices consistently show that countries that respect property rights experience less poverty, lower infant mortality, higher life expectancy, more gender equality, and higher levels of happiness.
15 November 2022 - Should race law be relaxed in SA? Eskom board member and former Altron CEO Mteto Nyati says yes, at least for Eskom.
13 November 2022 - I owe my — admittedly slight — familiarity with Giambattista Vico to reading the work of Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said.