19 November 2018 - By ignoring the opinions of hundreds of thousands of South Africans, Parliament's Joint Constitutional Review Committee has blocked them from ever being able to bring their views to bear on the country's most important policy decision in the post-apartheid period.
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19 November 2018 - Property rights are the foundation of every free and open society. They underpin investment decisions and anchor human liberty. They are also indivisible, and the land reform issue is simply being used as the thin end of a much larger property rights wedge.
18 November 2018 - The war bankrupted Britain. It could no longer afford to keep its empire even had it wished to in the face of nationalist demands which the war helped to stimulate. But that empire's achievement in helping to destroy Hitler is one of the greatest in global history.
18 November 2018 - Dreams haunt us again, a sheep for every family and veggies in every garden plot, while revolutionaries whisper in our ears that this time, comrades, it’s going to work!
18 November 2018 - Diegene wat gedink het dat hulle met die ANC sou kon onderhandel, 'n gemeenskaplike terrein sou kon vind en 'n konstitusionele wysiging sou kon voorkom, was naiief. Die regering het hulle eenvoudig op 'n dwaalspoor gelei met versekerings terwyl hulle teen hulle aan die saamsweer was.
18 November 2018 - The protests in Mariannridge highlight two factors: that more effective land reform is urgent in South Africa's cities; and the damaging consequences of the ANC government's continued use of race as a benchmark for services, jobs and developing infrastructure.
16 November 2018 - With almost half a million people employed by the mining industry, and each of these supporting as many as nine direct beneficiaries (according to the Minerals Council), rather than use mine fatalities as an opportunity to condemn the industry, South Africa would do better to work with mining companies as they do everything they can to ensure the 2024 goal of No Harm is met, because a South Africa without a thriving mining industry would be much deadlier.
15 November 2018 - The consequences of the hard-fought debate about EWC is the most consequential moment in South Africa’s governance framework since the constitution was adopted in 1996, and it is vital that whatever its outcome, the process must be regarded as legitimate.
14 November 2018 - The IRR is briefing lawyers in preparation for taking the procedurally flawed work of parliament’s Constitutional Review Committee on judicial review.
14 November 2018 - There are indeed times when expecting and preparing for the worst is the most prudent option.
14 November 2018 - You will rarely find any measure or proportion in EFF language — to do that would require the party to be grounded in reality, defined as it is by difference and inconsistency
13 November 2018 - A tweet today by Democratic Alliance mayor of Johannesburg Herman Mashaba about the supposed health risk posed by an informal trader is contemptible and xenophobic, says the Institute of Race Relations’ (IRR) head of politics and governance, Gareth van Onselen.