4 October 2021 - Wits sociology professor Roger Southall is in a pickle when it comes to the Institute of Race Relations (IRR). On one hand he recently used its annual surveys, occasional reports and commissioned opinion surveys as reliable data, but on the other hand underscored his opposition to the IRR by advancing the anonymous opinion of someone who “would not touch the survey with a barge pole, because its publication by the IRR meant it simply could not be trusted” (“IRR would do us a far greater service by honouring its legacy”, September 26).
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4 October 2021 - South African politics has long been captured by leftists, resulting in a disconnect between the right-of-centre cravings of the masses and the doctrinaire political class. It seems that the silent majority now has a flag to rally around.
30 September 2021 - The new hate speech and hate crimes bill – formally, the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill of 2018 (the Bill) – is open for public comment until tomorrow.
30 September 2021 - Stephen Nthite submits that the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) has “contributed to the politics of polarisation” (“IRR stokes politics of polarisation”, September 28).
29 September 2021 - Voormalige en huidige lede van die Instituut vir Rasseverhoudinge (IRV) en ‘n rits ander “besorgde burgers” het in ‘n ope brief hul kommer uitgespreek oor die rigting wat die IRV ingeslaan het en sy huidige rol in Suid-Afrika. Hulle voel onder meer dat die IRV se huidige benadering die nalatenskap van sy stigters verraai en ‘n ondiens aan die mense van Suid-Afrika bewys. Lees die volledige ope brief hier.
29 September 2021 - Evergrande, China’s second largest property developer, might be close to collapse, posing immense risks for the country’s financial stability and growth. Last week the company failed to pay some of its bond holders, but it still has about a month left before it can be declared in default.
29 September 2021 - By the beginning of July 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic had gripped the world, shutting down much of what had previously been taken for granted. Perhaps more significantly, it had laid a deep sense of trepidation on the world.
28 September 2021 - Let it never be said of Cyril Ramaphosa that he is a proud man. Speaking to the United Nations’ 76th General Assembly, he begged the rich world for money and concessions, including reparations for slavery.
27 September 2021 - One of the most useful spin-offs of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture (the Zondo Commission) has been all the publicity about cadre deployment. This policy has been among the most ruinous of all the things the African National Congress (ANC) has inflicted upon this country. Moreover, as is the case with all their other ruinous policies, Cyril Ramaphosa and the ANC are unrepentant about what they have done.
27 September 2021 - South Africa is a challenged society. No one living in or visiting the country can avoid confronting that reality in some manifestation or other: the omnipresent poverty, the enforced idleness of unemployment, the threat of violence and the never-ending stream of official malfeasance and incompetence.
27 September 2021 - Every now and then a small thing casts light on something altogether larger, and arguably grander.
23 September 2021 - Duma Gqubule’s most recent column — (“Time for quotas to chisel away rock of institutional racism,” September 20) was useful in two respects.