9 May 2022 - In today’s climate, it takes courage for an academic to speak out publicly against his university’s racial preferencing policies. That, however, is what David Benatar has done in The Fall of the University of Cape Town - Africa’s leading university in decline.
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9 May 2022 - Who ruined South Africa’s electricity supply, which was once the best in the world? Was it Eskom? The ANC? Other malign influences? Other idiocies?
5 May 2022 - Part 4 of the Zondo Commission report into state capture came out last week. It primarily rehashes and reaffirms the story of how Eskom was captured by the Gupta family with the help of former President Jacob Zuma. But, despite the commission’s ever-growing price tag (R1bn and counting), it provides the country with little new information.
Department of Health is acting without evidence – IRR
5 May 2022 - Yesterday Health Minister Joe Phaahla issued regulations under the National Health Act (NHA) that reimpose measures that were until recently lockdown Level 1 restrictions – including mask mandates for all non-domestic indoor locations, vaccine passes for large outdoor events, and restrictions to 50% of venue capacity indoors and outdoors for businesses and places of worship.
4 May 2022 - Circa May 5, the lockdown measures currently in place will no longer apply under the Disaster Management Act, which is why Joe Phaahla, the Minister of Health, is expected to fill the gap by forcing the same restrictions under the National Health Act.
3 May 2022 - I’ll tell you why I wear underpants on my face. And why I am a little bit ashamed of it.
3 May 2022 - It has been brewing for decades, but like the long-neglected electricity system, the long-neglected water supply, treatment and reticulation systems are now collapsing. Best be prepared.
3 May 2022 - South Africa has been ranked 75th out of 84 jurisdictions on the Fraser Institute’s 2021 Annual Survey of Mining Companies. This means that the sector is amongst the least attractive places in the world for mining investment.
2 May 2022 - To read this book is to descend into an Orwellian world of topsy-turvy logic, thoughtcrime, doublethink, betrayal, cruelty, lies, and fear. But George Orwell described Nineteen Eighty-four as a “novel”, whereas The Fall of the University of Cape Town - Africa’s leading university in decline, published last year, is fact. Big Brother might not be watching you, or listening to you, but plenty of other people are.
28 April 2022 - A few weeks ago, Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Ebrahim Patel, was in fighting form in defence of government policy. At issue was the Broad-Based Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE). Opposition to this, the minister said, was a pernicious movement that was damaging South Africa’s future.
28 April 2022 - Tshepo Diale’s contribution (Land isn’t everything; it’s the only thing, 21 April) repeats the assertion that land politics are central to resolving SA’s crisis.
28 April 2022 - Last week, Busi Mavuso, an Eskom non-executive director and head of the country’s most prominent business body, may have thrown down a bigger challenge to the government than she had initially thought. She said what we all know: that the present Eskom board should not be blamed for the disaster created by the ANC.