31 December 2019 - But I remain convinced that we would be mistaken to overlook what the commonplaces of everyday encounters tell us of what we might yet become as a society, and of the road we all travel together.
Media
Every week we reach hundreds of thousands of people through placing arguments in the media in support of the principles we stand for. No other advocacy group in the country does as much as we do to promote support for policies that defend your right, and that of your community, to make decisions about your own life free from counter-productive government interference.
31 December 2019 - The findings of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC) into the complaint made by Grant Meyer against the television news report on the dispute with two occupiers has redeemed the reputation of the Seven Oakes, KwaZulu-Natal farmer.
23 December 2019 - But if that government fails to confront our history, recognise its own failures, and summon the courage and political wisdom to correct them, the millions represented by the bundle in the fig tree will have little to hope for.
19 December 2019 - Ramaphosa has said that ongoing rotational power cuts are causing great harm to the economy and disrupting the lives of citizens. No kidding! Tell us something we don’t know!
19 December 2019 - From 1994 onwards, South Africa with its many economic, innovative, and institutional strengths could easily have joined other developing nations in making the Great Escape from poverty. Instead, ever more NDR interventions have incrementally crippled the country’s capacity for growth to the point where GDP per capita has been shrinking for the past five years. Add the enactment of the EWC Bill in 2020, as the ANC plans, and the country’s prospects of achieving the Great Escape will retreat still further.
19 December 2019 - Dr Ralph Mathekga shows once again that there are unexpected gaps in his political knowledge (IRR fears Mogoeng views on socio-political woes may compromise judiciary, IOL, 18 December).
16 December 2019 - The chief justice's call for the ostracism of people of whose views he disapproves is incompatible with these fundamental principles of the Constitution he is sworn to uphold.
12 December 2019 - Those inclined to minimise the draft Bill should perhaps also ponder on what Cosatu said in January 2018, when the EWC demand was building up: ‘The policy of land expropriation without compensation needs to be implemented without fear or favour. Going forward, we want to see government using its expropriation powers more aggressively… We need state ownership of all the land in this country in order for the democratic state to break the power of white capital.’
12 December 2019 - Too much of the debate on the ‘debate’ around expropriation without compensation is based on faulty and often misrepresented evidence. This is examined in an analysis published by the Institute of Race Relations today.
11 December 2019 - Contrary to all the assurances provided by the ANC – and the mandate given to the Ad Hoc Committee charged with formulating the amendment – the Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill does far more than merely ‘make explicit that which is implicit’ in the existing wording of Section 25 of the Constitution.
11 December 2019 - If Ramaphosa wants to get himself out of the corner, he should echo the veterans’ call for all ANC members to vote for him directly, as that would prove that he really believes that whatever corner he is in, he’s in it with the rest of us. That is exactly where a real president should be.
11 December 2019 - The threat to private property remains very real. We have not dodged a bullet, but merely heard the gun being cocked. Should it be fired, the wound it will inflict may be severe indeed.