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.
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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.
21 September 2021 - The criticism directed at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) today is not dissimilar to that which it received for endorsing unpopular positions in the 1980s, which you can read about in Jill Wentzel's excellent 1995 book, The Liberal Slideaway.
20 September 2021 - Deputy finance minister David Masondo’s willingness to creatively and openly explore solutions to Eskom’s over-reliance on coal, alongside its over-indebtedness, is refreshing.
ConCourt election judgment sets worrying precedent - IRR
20 September 2021 - The Constitutional Court has judged that the Electoral Commission’s (IEC) general powers include the power to cancel a deadline on its electoral timetable that has already passed. In particular, the IEC’s decision on September 6 to cancel the candidate nominations deadline of August 23 has been allowed to stand.
20 September 2021 - The ANC's ideological dogmatism was on full display in employment & labour minister Thulas Nxesi's laboured defence of the Employment Equity Amendment Bill (“Left to themselves, employers will not bring equity”, September 15).
16 September 2021 - The news that the ANC has opted to recommend minimal changes to the way we elect our representatives at provincial and national level is disappointing but not surprising.
16 September 2021 - Parliament has called for written submissions by 1st October 2021 on the new hate speech and hate crimes bill, formally the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crime and Hate Speech Bill of 2018 (the Bill).