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6 July 2021 - If cadre deployment, or pervasive looting and corruption, or anti-growth economic policies, or bureaucratic red tape, or trade barriers, or blackouts, or crime, or lockdowns fail to retard South Africa’s growth, one can always rely on activist obstructionism.

5 July 2021 - A few weeks ago (on 14th June) this column asked whether there was a “growing backlash against wokeism”. The answer seems to be yes, certainly in America, England, and South Africa, and perhaps further afield, judging by recent comments about “critical race theory” (CRT), one aspect of something known as wokeness.

5 July 2021 - In January, after human rights activists had exposed the state’s failed vaccine procurement strategy, Barry Schoub, head of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Covid Vaccines, castigated them, saying “the availability of a Covid-19 vaccine will not be a magic wand”, and accused them of “dangerously threatening the public motivation to continue with non-pharmaceutical interventions”.

5 July 2021 - The ANC government is updating the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act, colloquially referred to as Pepuda. The changes the Department of Justice put forward in a Bill for this purpose are far-reaching and upon occasion puzzling.

Zuma conviction great victory, and test, for RNTP

5 July 2021 - Over the past few weeks, the new initiative, Racism Is NOT The Problem (RNTP) has sought to do away with the notion that racism is South Africa’s biggest problem. The argument we are making is based on data collected through a survey that involved ordinary South Africans from all walks of life.

4 July 2021 - The richest irony of SA in 2021 is that turning a blind eye to the plight of the bulk of the country’s black majority is about the easiest and most acceptable thing to do.

4 July 2021 - Voorgestelde wysigings aan die Wet op die Bevordering van Gelykheid en Voorkoming van Onbillike Diskriminasie (Pepuda) kan banke, versekeraars, skole, private hospitale, pensioenfondse en kleinsakeondernemings onder druk plaas om die voorwaardes te verander waarop hulle met baie van hul kliënte handel dryf.

2 July 2021 - With the ANC having declared itself in favour of a provision for the custodianship of ‘certain’ land as part of its preferred formulation for the constitutional amendment, it is important not to lose sight of a critical fundamental: land may be the immediate target of these measures, but it will not be the only one.

1 July 2021 - Joel Modiri claims critical race theory (CRT) is being “demonised” by ignorant and “intensively aggressive” right-wing whites who feel threatened by its rise and are mobilising to protect white supremacy and prevent “any form of racial equality and racial justice” (“Critical race theory is being attacked as the need to take racism seriously can no longer be ignored”, June 24).

1 July 2021 - We have been notified that some members of the public have laid formal complaints about our billboard on the M1 South in Johannesburg with the Advertising Regulatory Board.

30 June 2021 - Imagine a doctor runs some tests and comes back to say, “Cancer is not the problem here, but you do have diabetes, arrythmia, and high blood pressure”. That would be partly good news (about the cancer), but mainly bad news (looming heart failure). Then imagine if the patient turned to his wife and said: “This doctor says cancer is not a problem – she must be crazy.”

Should you - or any direct descendant - qualify as a candidate under SA’s empowerment policies?

29 June 2021 - Earlier this month the Racism is NOT The Problem movement was established by the IRR to confront racial hypocrisy in South Africa, expose South Africa’s race hustler industry, and slay the myth that racism is the greatest problem facing the country.