5 May 2019 - Met die uitsondering van die provinsiale stem in die Wes-Kaap lyk dit vir my asof dit die beste strategies sinvolste keuse sal wees om u kruisie in volgender week se verkiesing langs die naam van ‘n kleiner party te trek.
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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.
5 May 2019 - Maar daar is tekens van lewe en verkiesingsvloeibaarheid daar buite. Die groter partye sal alles in hul vermoe doen om dit te keer soos wat hulle moet maar dit lyk of dit baie moeiliker is om dit te doen as op enige tydstip in die verlede. En dit is op sigself 'n baie interessante ontwikkeling.
5 May 2019 - South Africans must actively use their voting power against all those trying to force socialism and then communism on the country. To do otherwise is to betray an electorate with a strong preference (as opinion polls have repeatedly shown) for jobs, growth, and racial goodwill – not the radical redistribution, racial division, and rising destitution the NDR will bring.
1 May 2019 - It may eventually be that the ANC gives up on its low-growth economic policy (and threats of ever-more socialistic policy) and settles reluctantly for hard-needed reform, when confronted by the reality that it cannot make a dent in unemployment and the attendant electoral risks over the long-run. But while this scenario may be hoped for by reformers outside the ANC, it is not an action plan to drive reform externally.
30 April 2019 - The ANC currently stands on 49.5% nationally, down 5.2 percentage points from February (54.7%); the DA is on 21.3% nationally, down 0.5 percentage points from February (21.8%), and the EFF is on 14.9% nationally, up 2.7 percentage points from February (12.2%).
30 April 2019 - You cannot support him and “constitutionalism” at the same time.
29 April 2019 - Some weeks ago we put twelve questions* to the Democratic Alliance (DA). In a note last week, the party told us that they would not answer them. But the questions are important and in this column we set them out with some of our own insights.
29 April 2019 - Little that Mr Ramaphosa has said suggests that he intends to alter course to any significant degree, or even that he wishes to. To vote for his party in the hope that he will lead it on a liberalising change of course to encourage investment and growth is a triumph of wishful thinking over evidence.
28 April 2019 - Here is what magical thinking under acute duress looks like in numbers: 55% of intended ANC voters think the country's going in the wrong direction. Only 36% think it is going right. And 9% don't know. That is according to a February poll by the Centre for Risk Analysis, in association with the IRR. The fact that so many feel nailed to the ANC's cross is excruciating the entire republic.
27 April 2019 - Access to the EU market still remains a central and immediate concern with leaving. Britain, however, retains trade with the rest of the world which surpasses trade with the EU bloc, and it is in the interests of the EU to come to agreement with the UK on trade over time.
26 April 2019 - Dwelling on a speech in March by Institute of Race Relations (IRR) CEO Frans Cronje, Bruce claims this address “ended up calling the people it disagreed with (me, basically) ‘utterly mad’.” He is wrong on two counts; Cronje did not mention Bruce at all; nor did he describe any individual, commentator or otherwise, as “mad”.
25 April 2019 - Behind the long-delayed settlement between Sibanye-Stillwater gold mines and the Association of Mining and Construction Unions (Amcu) lies a record of violence and intimidation which the mining industry cannot afford.